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Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bruce Harlan  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Miller Anderson  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sammy Lee  United States
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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 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition, held on Friday 30 July and on Tuesday 3 August, was split into two sets of dives:

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

Twenty-seven divers from 16 nations competed. Eddie Heron of Ireland competed in the preliminary round but withdrew along with the rest of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association squad in protest at FINA's refusal to allow swimmers from Northern Ireland to compete for the team.[2]

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bruce Harlan  United States 163.64
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Miller Anderson  United States 157.29
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sammy Lee  United States 145.52
4 Joaquín Capilla  Mexico 141.79
5 Raymond Mulinghausen  France 126.55
6 Svante Johansson  Sweden 120.20
7 Kamal Ali Hassan  Egypt 119.90
8 Thomas Christiansen  Denmark 114.59
9 George Athans  Canada 114.13
10 Frank Gosling  Bermuda 113.98
11 Milton Busin  Brazil 113.86
12 Franz Worisch  Austria 112.15
13 Peter Heatly  Great Britain 111.73
14 Roger Heinkelé  France 110.78
15 Ismail Ahmed Ramzi  Egypt 110.18
16 David Norris  Australia 109.67
17 Diego Mariscal  Mexico 107.78
18 Charles Johnson  Great Britain 105.32
19 Wilhelm Lippa  Austria 103.18
20 Guy Hernandez  France 102.89
21 Gunnar Kemnitz  Brazil 102.22
22 Mohamed Ibrahim  Egypt 97.52
23 Peter Elliott  Great Britain 91.23
24 José Castillo  Cuba 84.81
25 Ernst Strupler  Switzerland 80.09
26 Günther Mund  Chile 68.08
27 Eddie Heron  Ireland WD

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. ^ Rouse, Paul (14 January 2016). "When crowds turned out to see the graceful Eddie Heron dive". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

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