Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard

The fifth and final round of dives was stage for a bizarre sequence of events, beginning with a spectator jumping into the pool. The then-leaders Peng Bo and Wang Kenan of China failed their final dive, for which they were awarded zero points. The highly regarded Russian pair, although only in fifth place at the time, had a chance to move up in the standings with their final dive, which had a potentially high-scoring 3.5 level of difficulty. One diver, however, hit the edge of the board with his feet halfway through a somersault. The American pair, in second place at the time, also earned shockingly low scores on their final dive by effectively bomb-diving. This left the Greeks, who had already taken their final dive unaware of the imminent melt-down, to claim the gold, Greece's first-ever in diving and the hosts' first gold of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Rank	Nation	Dives					Final score after five dives	Score after four dives	Rank after four dives
		1	2	3	4	5
	Greece Thomas Bimis Nikolaos Siranidis	54.60	52.80	78.30	84.00	83.64	353.34	269.70	4
	Germany Tobias Schellenberg Andreas Wels	52.20	52.80	83.16	77.19	84.66	350.01	265.35	6
	Australia Steven Barnett Robert Newbery	51.60	54.00	80.58	84.66	78.75	349.59	271.09	3
4	Cuba Jorge Betancourt Erick Fornaris	52.80	54.60	78.12	69.30	83.64	338.46	254.82	8
5	Great Britain Tony Ally Mark Shipman	50.40	49.80	79.98	81.90	72.90	334.98	262.08	7
6	United States Justin Dumais Troy Dumais	51.00	51.60	79.05	89.76	55.65	327.06	271.41	2
7	Russia Alexander Dobroskok Dmitri Sautin	54.00	57.00	76.50	78.54	46.20	312.24	266.04	5
8	China Peng Bo Wang Kenan	51.60	54.00	86.49	91.80	0.00	283.89	283.89	1

• "Diving Results". Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Yahoo!.
• Diving. Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad - Results