Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Men's 3 metre springboard; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Date	18-19 August
Medalists
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Men's 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 18 to August 19, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three metres above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 29 divers each perform six dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs six dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of six dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of .5; scores below 6.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The highest and lowest score from each judge are dropped. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by .6, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Results

Green denotes finalists

Rank	Diver	Preliminary ^[1]		Semifinal ^[2]		Final ^[3]
Rank	Diver	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
	He Chong (CHN)	515.50	1	547.25	1	572.90
	Alexandre Despatie (CAN)	453.60	9	518.75	2	536.65
	Qin Kai (CHN)	502.95	2	508.50	3	530.10
4	Dmitry Sautin (RUS)	474.85	4	476.35	8	512.65
5	Pavlo Rozenberg (GER)	431.65	16	454.40	12	485.60
6	Troy Dumais (USA)	448.40	12	463.15	10	472.50
7	Yahel Castillo (MEX)	480.65	3	504.55	4	462.10
8	Patrick Hausding (GER)	451.65	11	481.5	5	462.05
9	Robert Newbery (AUS)	465.15	6	460.35	11	461.05
10	Juan Guillermo Urán (COL)	443.05	14	468.90	9	454.60
11	Ken Terauchi (JPN)	452.80	10	478.25	7	442.50
12	Chris Colwill (USA)	464.75	7	480.95	6	425.90
13	Joona Puhakka (FIN)	469.45	5	451.95	13	Did not advance
14	Nicola Marconi (ITA)	430.90	18	444.55	14	Did not advance
15	Illya Kvasha (UKR)	461.65	8	439.55	15	Did not advance
16	Matthew Mitcham (AUS)	439.85	15	427.45	16	Did not advance
17	Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS)	431.15	17	412.00	17	Did not advance
18	Reuben Ross (CAN)	446.15	13	395.85	18	Did not advance
19	Jorge Betancourt (CUB)	428.25	19	Did not advance
20	Javier Illana (ESP)	423.90	20	Did not advance
21	Ramón Fumadó (VEN)	419.05	21	Did not advance
22	Constantin Blaha (AUT)	407.55	22	Did not advance
23	Yuriy Shlyakhov (UKR)	405.05	23	Did not advance
24	César Castro (BRA)	400.60	24	Did not advance
25	Sergei Kuchmasov (BLR)	399.40	25	Did not advance
26	Ben Swain (GBR)	390.30	26	Did not advance
27	Jorge Luis Pupo (CUB)	388.70	27	Did not advance
28	Tommaso Marconi (ITA)	360.15	28	Did not advance
29	Son Seong-Cheol (KOR)	353.35	29	Did not advance