Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Richard Degener  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marshall Wayne  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alan Greene  United States
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Diving at the
1936 Summer Olympics
3 m springboardmenwomen
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The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition was split into two sets of dives on separate days:

  1. Compulsory dives (Monday, 10 August)
    Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight somersault forward, standing header backward with pike, running straight isander-half gainer, standing backward spring and forward somersault with pike, and running pike dive with half-screw forward.
  2. Facultative dives (Tuesday, 11 August)
    Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-four divers from 15 nations competed.

Results

Place Diver Nation Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Richard Degener  United States 163.57
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marshall Wayne  United States 159.56
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alan Greene  United States 146.29
4 Tsuneo Shibahara  Japan 144.92
5 Erhard Weiß  Germany 141.21
6 Leo Esser  Germany 137.99
7 Winfried Mahraun  Germany 134.61
8 Tomio Koyanagi  Japan 133.07
9 František Leikert  Czechoslovakia 131.98
10 Branko Ziherl  Yugoslavia 125.26
11 Ismael Ramzi  Egypt 121.67
12 Roger Heinkelé  France 117.72
13 Ilmari Niemeläinen  Finland 116.80
14 Ron Masters  Australia 115.72
15 Hans Haasmann  Netherlands 111.44
15 Josef Nesvadba  Czechoslovakia 111.44
17 Karl Steiner  Austria 109.54
18 László Hidvégi  Hungary 107.49
19 Ahmed Ibrahim Kamel  Egypt 105.02
20 Frederick Hodges  Great Britain 102.98
21 Frédéric Boeni  Switzerland 95.84
22 László Hódi  Hungary 85.42
23 Max Happle  Switzerland 80.24
24 Alfredo Álvarez Calderón  Peru DNF

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

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