Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medalists
Bernard Wrightson  United States Klaus Dibiasi  Italy Jim Henry  United States

Diving at the 1968 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 1968 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (19–20 October)

   Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

2. Final (20 October)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Bernard Wrightson (USA)	102.95	3	67.20	1	170.15
	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	104.68	2	55.06	4	159.74
	Jim Henry (USA)	105.47	1	52.62	5	158.09
4	Luis Nino De Rivera (MEX)	99.13	6	56.58	3	155.71
5	Franco Cagnotto (ITA)	95.92	9	59.78	2	155.70
6	Keith Russell (USA)	100.61	4	51.14	8	151.75
7	Tord Andersson (SWE)	99.58	5	51.92	7	151.50
8	Donald Wagstaff (AUS)	97.84	7	52.34	6	150.18
9	Mikhail Safonov (URS)	92.77	12	48.25	9	141.02
10	Ulrich Reff (FRG)	95.42	11	44.66	10	140.08
11	Vladimir Vasin (URS)	95.73	10	43.86	11	139.59
12	Pentti Koskinen (FIN)	95.99	8	41.81	12	137.80
13	José Robinson (MEX)	91.45	13	Did not advance
14	Jorge Telch (MEX)	90.68	14	Did not advance
15	Jakub Puchow (POL)	88.65	15	Did not advance
16	Norbert Huda (FRG)	88.43	16	Did not advance
17	Italo Salice (ITA)	87.86	17	Did not advance
18	Junji Yuasa (JPN)	86.80	18	Did not advance
19	Frank Carter (GBR)	85.90	19	Did not advance
20	Boris Polulyakh (URS)	84.32	20	Did not advance
21	Jerzy Kowalewski (POL)	79.97	21	Did not advance
22	Song Jae-Ung (KOR)	79.66	22	Did not advance
23	Alberto Moreno (CUB)	76.80	23	Did not advance
24	Salim Barjum (COL)	76.19	24	Did not advance
25	Kenneth Sully (CAN)	74.62	25	Did not advance
26	José Ponce (CUB)	72.72	26	Did not advance
27	Jerry Anderson (PUR)	68.83	27	Did not advance
28	Héctor Bas (PUR)	62.43	28	Did not advance
-	Salvador Pérez (DOM)	DNS	-	Did not advance
-	Hakon Loken (NOR)	DNS	-	Did not advance

References

• Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (October 1969). The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games (pdf) (in French and English). Mexico: The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad. Retrieved 2007-01-04.