Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Left-right: Anderson, Browning, Clotworthy
Medalists
David Browning  United States Miller Anderson  United States Bob Clotworthy  United States

Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases on different days:

• Preliminary round (27 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (28 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	David Browning (USA)	89.59	1	115.70	1	205.29
	Miller Anderson (USA)	88.00	2	111.84	2	199.84
	Bob Clotworthy (USA)	80.64	3	104.28	3	184.92
4	Joaquín Capilla (MEX)	79.42	4	98.91	4	178.33
5	Roman Brener (URS)	69.37	7	96.26	5	165.63
6	Milton Busin (BRA)	67.97	8	87.94	6	155.91
7	Anthony Turner (GBR)	71.36	5	80.54	7	151.90
8	Aleksey Zigalov (URS)	71.25	6	80.06	8	151.31
9	Yoav Raanan (ISR)	67.70	9	Did not advance
10	Franz Worisch (AUT)	67.18	10	Did not advance
11	Hans Aderhold (GER)	67.09	11	Did not advance
12	Werner Sobeck (GER)	66.75	12	Did not advance
13	Gennady Udalov (URS)	65.99	13	Did not advance
14	Helge Vasenius (FIN)	65.41	14	Did not advance
15	Katsuichi Mori (JPN)	65.23	15	Did not advance
16	Peter Heatly (GBR)	63.37	16	Did not advance
17	Ahmed Kamel Aly (EGY)	62.95	17	Did not advance
18	Kamal Ali Hassan (EGY)	62.68	18	Did not advance
19	Rodolfo Perea (MEX)	62.36	19	Did not advance
20	Peter Elliott (GBR)	61.85	20	Did not advance
20	Alberto Capilla (MEX)	61.85	20	Did not advance
22	Willem Welgemoed (RSA)	61.64	22	Did not advance
23	Frank Landqvist (SWE)	60.11	23	Did not advance
24	Ronald Faulds (AUS)	59.90	24	Did not advance
25	Francis Gosling (BER)	59.57	25	Did not advance
26	Raymond Mulinghausen (FRA)	59.52	26	Did not advance
27	Gunnar Johansson (SWE)	59.11	27	Did not advance
28	Charles Johnson (GBR)	58.70	28	Did not advance
29	Olavi Heinonen (FIN)	58.06	29	Did not advance
30	Henri Goosen (FRA)	57.79	30	Did not advance
31	Allan Smith (CEY)	55.00	31	Did not advance
32	Lamberto Mari (ITA)	54.42	32	Did not advance
33	Ahmed Fahti Mohamed Hashad (EGY)	50.04	33	Did not advance
34	Francis Murphy (AUS)	48.42	34	Did not advance
35	Heinz Schaub (SUI)	47.15	35	Did not advance
36	Eduardo Fereda (VEN)	41.98	36	Did not advance

The divers were distracted by a photographer in a frogman suit who stationed himself in the pool to take pictures.^[1]

References

• Diving at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Springboard. sports-reference.com
• The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 (1955). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952" (PDF). The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. pp. p. 584. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
• Herman de Wael (2001-05-24). "Diving - men's springboard (Helsinki 1952)". Retrieved 2007-01-01.