Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Phil Boggs Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Franco Cagnotto Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg Aleksandr Kosenkov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
  1972
1980  

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics programme. [1]

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (21 July)
    Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (22 July)
    Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminaryFinal
PointsRankPoints
Gold medal icon.svg Phil Boggs Flag of the United States.svg  United States 621.511619.05
Silver medal icon.svg Franco Cagnotto Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 542.317570.48
Bronze medal icon.svg Aleksandr Kosenkov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 557.525567.24
4 Falk Hoffmann Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 573.003553.53
5 Rob Cragg Flag of the United States.svg  United States 582.992548.19
6 Greg Louganis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 530.858528.96
7 Carlos Girón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 547.146523.59
8 Klaus Dibiasi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 572.824516.18
9 Donald Wagstaff Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 529.119Did not advance
10 Norbert Huda Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 518.8810Did not advance
11 Boris Kozlov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 516.4211Did not advance
12 Vyacheslav Strakhov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 510.6312Did not advance
13 Frank Taubert Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 493.6813Did not advance
14 Dieter Waskow Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 491.7014Did not advance
15 Dieter Dörr Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 491.4015Did not advance
16 Scott Cranham Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 485.9716Did not advance
17 Porfirio Becerril Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 484.4117Did not advance
18 Chris Snode Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 479.7918Did not advance
19 Skip Phoenix Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 458.1019Did not advance
20 Trevor Simpson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 450.8120Did not advance
21 Steve Foley Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 447.1521Did not advance
22 Claudio De Miro Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 446.6122Did not advance
23 Ken Armstrong Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 442.4723Did not advance
24 Alain Goosen Flag of France.svg  France 441.3624Did not advance
25 Ricardo Camacho Flag of Spain (1945-1977).svg  Spain 408.9425Did not advance
26 Sangwan Foengdee Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 317.6126Did not advance
27 Sulaiman Qabazard Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait 216.9327Did not advance
28 Ahmet Kizil Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 205.6828Did not advance
- Nelson Suarez Flag of Ecuador (1900-2009).svg  Ecuador DNS-Did not advance
- Jamal Al-Ghareeb Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait DNS-Did not advance

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References

  1. "Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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