Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as 3-metre springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
Gary Tobian  United States Samuel Hall  United States Juan Botella  Mexico

The competition was split into three phases:

1. Preliminary round (27 August)

   Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.

2. Semi-final (27 August)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.

3. Final (29 August)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Semi-final				Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Gary Tobian	United States	62.03	2	45.30	3	107.33	2	62.64	1	170.00
	Sam Hall	United States	62.16	1	45.33	2	107.49	1	59.59	2	167.08
	Juan Botella	Mexico	60.66	3	46.30	1	106.96	3	55.34	3	162.30
4	Alvaro Gaxiola	Mexico	54.89	6	39.78	8	94.67	6	55.75	4	150.42
5	Ernest Meissner	Canada	53.62	8	40.61	6	94.23	7	49.84	5	144.07
6	Lamberto Mari	Italy	55.04	5	41.45	4	96.49	4	47.48	6	143.97
7	Toshio Yamano	Japan	52.84	12	41.24	5	94.08	8	46.38	7	140.46
8	Hans-Dieter Pophal	United Team of Germany	55.10	4	38.81	11	94.91	5	39.04	8	133.95
9	Georges Senecot	France	53.93	7	38.54	14	92.47	9	did not advance
10	Walter Messa	Italy	53.47	9	38.81	11	92.28	10	did not advance
11	Rudolf Oertel	United Team of Germany	51.80	15	40.10	7	91.90	11	did not advance
12	Yury Melnikov	Soviet Union	53.30	10	38.56	13	91.86	12	did not advance
13	Johnny Hellström	Sweden	51.91	14	39.40	9	91.31	13	did not advance
14	Göran Lundqvist	Sweden	52.36	13	38.87	10	91.23	14	did not advance
15	Kurt Mrkwicka	Austria	53.12	11	37.61	16	90.73	15	did not advance
16	Graham Deuble	Australia	51.48	16	37.78	15	89.26	16	did not advance
17	Vyacheslav Chernyshov	Soviet Union	50.87	17	did not advance
18	Christian Pire	France	50.49	18	did not advance
19	Peter Huber	Austria	50.46	19	did not advance
20	Peter Squires	Great Britain	50.23	20	did not advance
21	Tomáš Bauer	Czechoslovakia	49.92	21	did not advance
22	Fernando Ribeiro	Brazil	49.27	22	did not advance
23	Shunsuke Kaneto	Japan	47.51	23	did not advance
24	János Konkoly	Hungary	46.94	24	did not advance
25	Jerzy Kowalewski	Poland	46.54	25	did not advance
26	Keith Collin	Great Britain	46.10	26	did not advance
27	Kenneth Crotty	Australia	43.40	27	did not advance
28	Ahmed Moharran	Egypt	42.98	28	did not advance
29	Federico Andrade	Colombia	41.43	29	did not advance
30	József Dóra	Hungary	41.21	30	did not advance
31	Hans Klug	Switzerland	38.65	31	did not advance
32	Ali Muheeb	Egypt	35.79	32	did not advance

Sources

• The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960, Volume II" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. pp. pp. 586–8. Archived from the original (pdf) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2007.
• Herman de Wael (24 May 2001). "Diving - men's springboard (Rome 1960)". Retrieved 3 January 2007.