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

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
Greg Louganis  United States Tan Liangde  China 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.

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

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points
	Greg Louganis (USA)	629.67	3	730.80
	Tan Liangde (CHN)	682.65	1	704.88
	Li Deliang (CHN)	607.77	4	665.28
4	Albin Killat (FRG)	642.60	2	661.47
5	Mark Bradshaw (USA)	588.15	7	642.99
6	Jorge Mondragón (MEX)	594.36	5	616.02
7	Jesús Mena (MEX)	581.01	8	598.77
8	Edwin Jongejans (NED)	591.45	6	588.33
9	Niki Stajković (AUT)	579.63	9	570.60
10	Aleksandr Portnov (URS)	561.81	12	563.37
11	Keita Kaneto (JPN)	577.50	10	562.05
12	Valery Goncharov (URS)	570.63	11	554.16
13	Massimo Castellani (ITA)	553.74	13
14	Joakim Andersson (SWE)	549.99	14
15	Tom Lemaire (BEL)	549.09	15
16	Piero Italiani (ITA)	542.67	16
17	Larry Flewwelling (CAN)	541.14	17
18	Isao Yamagishi (JPN)	540.72	18
19	Erich Pils (AUT)	532.92	19
20	David Bédard (CAN)	532.62	20
21	Willi Meyer (FRG)	511.98	21
22	Juha Ovaskainen (FIN)	500.76	22
23	Graeme Banks (AUS)	499.41	23
24	Jérôme Nalliod (FRA)	496.17	24
25	José Miguel Gil (ESP)	483.12	25
26	Graham Morris (GBR)	478.74	26
27	Tomasz Rossa (POL)	475.44	27
28	Russell Butler (AUS)	470.19	28
29	Robert Morgan (GBR)	457.65	29
30	Abraham Suárez (ECU)	446.92	30
31	Majed Altaqi (KUW)	387.60	31
32	Sun-Gee Lee (KOR)	362.58	32
33	Christopher Honey (BAR)	347.22	33
34	Kei Shan Tang (HKG)	298.08	34
35	Kin Chung Wong (HKG)	263.16	35

References

• 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.