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

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Greg Louganis  United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Tan Liangde  China
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Li Deliang  China

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]

A historic score was also established by Hong Kong athlete Kin Chung Wong, who jumped right after Louganis' injury and was so unnerved by the event that he did a wrong dive that earned him the first zero score ever in the Olympics.

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

RankDiverPreliminaryFinal
PointsRankPoints
1st, gold medalist(s) Greg Louganis (USA) 629.673730.80
2nd, silver medalist(s) Tan Liangde (CHN) 682.651704.88
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Li Deliang (CHN) 607.774665.28
4 Albin Killat (FRG) 642.602661.47
5 Mark Bradshaw (USA) 588.157642.99
6 Jorge Mondragón (MEX) 594.365616.02
7 Jesús Mena (MEX) 581.018598.77
8 Edwin Jongejans (NED) 591.456588.33
9 Niki Stajković (AUT) 579.639570.60
10 Aleksandr Portnov (URS) 561.8112563.37
11 Keita Kaneto (JPN) 577.5010562.05
12 Valery Goncharov (URS) 570.6311554.16
13 Massimo Castellani (ITA) 553.7413Did not advance
14 Joakim Andersson (SWE) 549.9914Did not advance
15 Tom Lemaire (BEL) 549.0915Did not advance
16 Piero Italiani (ITA) 542.6716Did not advance
17 Larry Flewwelling (CAN) 541.1417Did not advance
18 Isao Yamagishi (JPN) 540.7218Did not advance
19 Erich Pils (AUT) 532.9219Did not advance
20 David Bédard (CAN) 532.6220Did not advance
21 Willi Meyer (FRG) 511.9821Did not advance
22 Juha Ovaskainen (FIN) 500.7622Did not advance
23 Graeme Banks (AUS) 499.4123Did not advance
24 Jérôme Nalliod (FRA) 496.1724Did not advance
25 José Miguel Gil (ESP) 483.1225Did not advance
26 Graham Morris (GBR) 478.7426Did not advance
27 Tomasz Rossa (POL) 475.4427Did not advance
28 Russell Butler (AUS) 470.1928Did not advance
29 Robert Morgan (GBR) 457.6529Did not advance
30 Abraham Suárez (ECU) 446.9230Did not advance
31 Majed Altaqi (KUW) 387.6031Did not advance
32 Sun-Gee Lee (KOR) 362.5832Did not advance
33 Christopher Honey (BAR) 347.2233Did not advance
34 Kei Shan Tang (HKG) 298.0834Did not advance
35 Kin Chung Wong (HKG) 263.1635Did not advance

References

  1. Simon Burnton (March 28, 2012). "50 stunning Olympic moments No20: Greg Louganis's perfect dive 1988". The Guardian.
  • Official Report of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad Seoul, 1988 - Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results (pdf) (in English and French). Seoul: Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee. 1989. pp. pp. 573–8. OCLC 23924033. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
  • Crean, John (June 13, 1996). "Hong Kong's Last Chance To Win an Olympic Medal". The New York Times.
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