Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Aleksandr Portnov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Silver medal icon.svg Carlos Girón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Bronze medal icon.svg Franco Cagnotto Olympic flag.svg  Italy
  1976
1984  

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme. [1]

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (22 July)
    Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (23 July)
    Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.

Controversy

As Aleksandr Portnov waited to do a 2 and 1/2 reverse somersault in the springboard final, cheers broke out in three adjoining swimming pool during the closing stages of Salnikov's world record breaking 1,500m swim. The diver delayed his start until the noise had subsided but, as he took his first steps along the board, even greater cheers broke out as Salnikov touched in under 15 minutes. Under the rules Portnov, having started, could not stop before take-off. On protest to the Swedish referee G.Olander he was allowed to repeat the dive and went ahead again of Mexico's Carlos Girón. Later protests by Mexico against the re-dive and by East Germany that their Falk Hoffmann wanted to re-dive after allegedly being disturbed by photographic flashlights were both turned down by FINA. FINA President Javier Ostas stated that the decision taken by the Swedish referee was the "correct one”. FINA assessed all the Olympic diving events and considers the judging to have been objective". Portnov remained the winner with Giron taking silver and Cagnotto of Italy bronze.

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminaryFinal
PointsRankPointsRank½ Prel.Total
Gold medal icon.svg Aleksandr Portnov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 580.112614.9701290.050905.025
Silver medal icon.svg Carlos Girón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 580.201602.0402290.100892.140
Bronze medal icon.svg Franco Cagnotto Olympic flag.svg  Italy 556.326593.3403278.160871.500
4 Falk Hoffmann Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 567.783574.6205283.890858.510
5 Aleksandr Kosenkov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 558.904575.6704279.450855.120
6 Christopher Snode Olympic flag.svg  Great Britain 557.105565.9206278.550844.470
7 Vyacheslav Troshin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 552.427543.8407276.210820.050
8 Ricardo Camacho Spain Olympic Flag 1980.svg  Spain 532.028483.3308266.010749.340
9 Frank Taubert Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 524.049Did not advance
10 Dieter Waskow Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 522.8710Did not advance
11 Steve Foley Olympic flag.svg  Australia 521.8211Did not advance
12 Niki Stajković Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 521.0412Did not advance
13 Petar Georgiev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 504.3313Did not advance
14 Francisco Rueda Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 495.6314Did not advance
15 Kenneth Grove Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 491.9415Did not advance
16 Rolando Ruiz Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 489.2416Did not advance
17 Károly Némedi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 475.1717Did not advance
18 Reynaldo Castro Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 469.1418Did not advance
19 Roman Godziński Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 462.4819Did not advance
20 Jorge Mondragón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 454.1720Did not advance
21 Michael Worisch Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 452.4321Did not advance
22 Milton Machado Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg  Brazil 451.1722Did not advance
23 Alex Bagiu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 427.3523Did not advance
24 David Parrington Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 416.6724Did not advance

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References

  1. "Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 May 2020.

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