Diving at the 1948 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 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
Bruce Harlan  United States
Miller Anderson  United States
Sammy Lee  United States

The competition, held on Friday 30 July and on Tuesday 3 August, was split into two sets of dives:

  1. Compulsory dives
    Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight header forward, backward header with pike, running straight isander-half gainer reverse dive, backward spring and forward dive with pike, and running straight forward twist.
  2. Facultative dives
    Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-seven divers from 16 nations competed. Eddie Heron of Ireland competed in the preliminary round but withdrew along with the rest of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association squad in protest at FINA's refusal to allow swimmers from Northern Ireland to compete for the team.[2]

Results

RankDiverNationPoints
Bruce Harlan United States163.64
Miller Anderson United States157.29
Sammy Lee United States145.52
4Joaquín Capilla Mexico141.79
5Raymond Mulinghausen France126.55
6Svante Johansson Sweden120.20
7Kamal Ali Hassan Egypt119.90
8Thomas Christiansen Denmark114.59
9George Athans Canada114.13
10Frank Gosling Bermuda113.98
11Milton Busin Brazil113.86
12Franz Worisch Austria112.15
13Peter Heatly Great Britain111.73
14Roger Heinkelé France110.78
15Ismail Ahmed Ramzi Egypt110.18
16David Norris Australia109.67
17Diego Mariscal Mexico107.78
18Charles Johnson Great Britain105.32
19Wilhelm Lippa Austria103.18
20Guy Hernandez France102.89
21Gunnar Kemnitz Brazil102.22
22Mohamed Ibrahim Egypt97.52
23Peter Elliott Great Britain91.23
24José Castillo Cuba84.81
25Ernst Strupler Switzerland80.09
26Günther Mund Chile68.08
27Eddie Heron IrelandWD

References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. Rouse, Paul (14 January 2016). "When crowds turned out to see the graceful Eddie Heron dive". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

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