Diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venue Swimming Stadium Tourelles
Dates July 16 (semifinals)
July 17 (final)
Competitors 17 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Albert White  United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Clarence Pinkston  United States

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as plongeons du tremplin (English: trampoline diving), was one of five diving events on the diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed six compulsory dives - standing backward plain dive, standing forward dive with twist, standing inward piked dive with twist, standing reverse piked dive, standing reverse plain dive with twist (3 metre board) and a standing forward somersault piked dive (1 metre board) - two jury-drawn dives and four dives of the competitor's choice for a total of twelve dives. The competition was held on Wednesday July 16, 1924, and Thursday July 17, 1924.

A point-for-place system was used. For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive (the best dive earned 1 point, the next-best 2 points, and so on).

Seventeen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

First round

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

PlaceDiverPointsScore
1 Clarence Pinkston (USA)5672
2 Dick Eve (AUS)13522.3
3 Curt Sjöberg (SWE)15523
4 Rémy Weil (FRA)18497.9
5 Henk Lotgering (NED)25459.2
6 Eric MacDonald (GBR)29433.2

Group 2

PlaceDiverPointsScore
1 Albert White (USA)5681.9
2 Adolf Hellquist (SWE)13494.5
3 Henk Hemsing (NED)14455.2
4 Gregory Matveieff (GBR)21414.1
5 Antoine Jacob (FRA)23425.4
6 Arthur Bischoff (SUI)29385

Group 3

PlaceDiverPointsScore
1 Pete Desjardins (USA)5662.8
2 Edmund Lindmark (SWE)10557
3 Julius Balasz (TCH)16488
4 Paul Raeth (FRA)19455.5
5 Atte Lindqvist (FIN)25398.8

Final

PlaceDiverPointsScore
1st, gold medalist(s) Albert White (USA)7696.4
2nd, silver medalist(s) Pete Desjardins (USA)8693.2
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Clarence Pinkston (USA)15653
4 Edmund Lindmark (SWE)22599.1
5 Dick Eve (AUS)26564.3
6 Adolf Hellquist (SWE)30544.9
7 Curt Sjöberg (SWE)34538.3
8 Henk Hemsing (NED)39490.8
9 Julius Balasz (TCH)44463.1

References

  • Comité Olympique Français (1924). "Les Jeux de la VIIIe Olympiade - Rapport Officiel" (PDF). pp. p. 466. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2006-12-28.
  • Herman de Wael (2003-08-03). "Diving 1924". Retrieved 2006-12-28.
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