Diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as plongeons du tremplin (English: trampoline diving), was one of five diving events on the diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed six compulsory dives - standing backward plain dive, standing forward dive with twist, standing inward piked dive with twist, standing reverse piked dive, standing reverse plain dive with twist (3 metre board) and a standing forward somersault piked dive (1 metre board) - two jury-drawn dives and four dives of the competitor's choice for a total of twelve dives. The competition was held on Wednesday 16 July 1924, and Thursday 17 July 1924.[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
VenueSwimming Stadium Tourelles
Dates16 July (semifinals)
17 July (final)
Competitors17 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Albert White  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Clarence Pinkston  United States
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A point-for-place system was used. For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive (the best dive earned 1 point, the next-best 2 points, and so on).

Seventeen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

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First round

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The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Clarence Pinkston   United States 5 672
2 Dick Eve   Australia 13 522.3
3 Curt Sjöberg   Sweden 15 523
4 Rémy Weil   France 18 497.9
5 Henk Lotgering   Netherlands 25 459.2
6 Eric MacDonald   Great Britain 29 433.2

Group 2

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Albert White   United States 5 681.9
2 Adolf Hellquist   Sweden 13 494.5
3 Henk Hemsing   Netherlands 14 455.2
4 Gregory Matveieff   Great Britain 21 414.1
5 Antoine Jacob   France 23 425.4
6 Arthur Bischoff   Switzerland 29 385

Group 3

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Pete Desjardins   United States 5 662.8
2 Edmund Lindmark   Sweden 10 557
3 Julius Balasz   Czechoslovakia 16 488
4 Paul Raeth   France 19 455.5
5 Atte Lindqvist   Finland 25 398.8

Final

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
  Albert White   United States 7 696.4
  Pete Desjardins   United States 8 693.2
  Clarence Pinkston   United States 15 653
4 Edmund Lindmark   Sweden 22 599.1
5 Dick Eve   Australia 26 564.3
6 Adolf Hellquist   Sweden 30 544.9
7 Curt Sjöberg   Sweden 34 538.3
8 Henk Hemsing   Netherlands 39 490.8
9 Julius Balasz   Czechoslovakia 44 463.1

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2020.

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