Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard

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Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Thomas Bimis,
Nikolaos Siranidis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
Silver medal icon.svg Tobias Schellenberg,
Andreas Wels
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg Steven Barnett,
Robert Newbery
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2000
2008  

The men's synchronized 3 metre springboard was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics programme. [1]

The competition was held as an outright final:

Final
16 August — Each pair of divers performed five dives freely chosen from the five diving groups, with two dives limited to a 2.0 degree of difficulty and the others without limitation. Divers could perform different dives during the same dive if both presented the same difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the score attained by the pair after all five dives had been performed.

Results

The fifth and final round of dives was stage for a bizarre sequence of events, beginning with a spectator jumping into the pool. The then-leaders Peng Bo and Wang Kenan of China failed their final dive, for which they were awarded zero points. The highly regarded Russian pair, although only in fifth place at the time, had a chance to move up in the standings with their final dive, which had a potentially high-scoring 3.5 level of difficulty. One diver, however, hit the edge of the board with his feet halfway through a somersault. The American pair, in second place at the time, also earned shockingly low scores on their final dive by effectively bomb-diving. This left the Greeks, who had already taken their final dive unaware of the imminent melt-down, to claim the gold, Greece's first-ever in diving and the hosts' first gold of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

RankNationDivesFinal score
after five dives
Score after
four dives
Rank after
four dives
12345
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Greece.svg  Greece
Thomas Bimis
Nikolaos Siranidis
54.6052.8078.3084.0083.64353.34269.704
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Tobias Schellenberg
Andreas Wels
52.2052.8083.1677.1984.66350.01265.356
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Australia.svg  Australia
Steven Barnett
Robert Newbery
51.6054.0080.5884.6678.75349.59271.093
4Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Jorge Betancourt
Erick Fornaris
52.8054.6078.1269.3083.64338.46254.828
5Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Tony Ally
Mark Shipman
50.4049.8079.9881.9072.90334.98262.087
6Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Justin Dumais
Troy Dumais
51.0051.6079.0589.7655.65327.06271.412
7Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Alexander Dobroskok
Dmitri Sautin
54.0057.0076.5078.5446.20312.24266.045
8Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Peng Bo
Wang Kenan
51.6054.0086.4991.800.00283.89283.891

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References

  1. "Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics: Synchronized Springboard, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2020.

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