Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. Memorably, defending champion Greg Louganis managed to complete the preliminary qualifying after hitting his head on the springboard while performing a reverse 2½ pike in the third round and suffering a concussion, and continued to the finals to win the gold medal.[1][2]

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Greg Louganis  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tan Liangde  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Li Deliang  China
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The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (19 September)
    Divers performed eleven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (20 September)
    Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points
  Greg Louganis   United States 629.67 3 730.80
  Tan Liangde   China 682.65 1 704.88
  Li Deliang   China 607.77 4 665.28
4 Albin Killat   West Germany 642.60 2 661.47
5 Mark Bradshaw   United States 588.15 7 642.99
6 Jorge Mondragón   Mexico 594.36 5 616.02
7 Jesús Mena   Mexico 581.01 8 598.77
8 Edwin Jongejans   Netherlands 591.45 6 588.33
9 Niki Stajković   Austria 579.63 9 570.60
10 Aleksandr Portnov   Soviet Union 561.81 12 563.37
11 Keita Kaneto   Japan 577.50 10 562.05
12 Valery Goncharov   Soviet Union 570.63 11 554.16
13 Massimo Castellani   Italy 553.74 13 Did not advance
14 Joakim Andersson   Sweden 549.99 14 Did not advance
15 Tom Lemaire   Belgium 549.09 15 Did not advance
16 Piero Italiani   Italy 542.67 16 Did not advance
17 Larry Flewwelling   Canada 541.14 17 Did not advance
18 Isao Yamagishi   Japan 540.72 18 Did not advance
19 Erich Pils   Austria 532.92 19 Did not advance
20 David Bédard   Canada 532.62 20 Did not advance
21 Willi Meyer   West Germany 511.98 21 Did not advance
22 Juha Ovaskainen   Finland 500.76 22 Did not advance
23 Graeme Banks   Australia 499.41 23 Did not advance
24 Jérôme Nalliod   France 496.17 24 Did not advance
25 José Miguel Gil   Spain 483.12 25 Did not advance
26 Graham Morris   Great Britain 478.74 26 Did not advance
27 Tomasz Rossa   Poland 475.44 27 Did not advance
28 Russell Butler   Australia 470.19 28 Did not advance
29 Robert Morgan   Great Britain 457.65 29 Did not advance
30 Abraham Suárez   Ecuador 446.92 30 Did not advance
31 Majed Altaqi   Kuwait 387.60 31 Did not advance
32 Lee Seon-gi   South Korea 362.58 32 Did not advance
33 Christopher Honey   Barbados 347.22 33 Did not advance
34 Tang Kei Shan   Hong Kong 298.08 34 Did not advance
35 Wong Kin Chung   Hong Kong 263.16 35 Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ Simon Burnton (28 March 2012). "50 stunning Olympic moments No20: Greg Louganis's perfect dive 1988". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 May 2020.

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