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Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's springboard diving
at the Games of the V Olympiad
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates8–9 July
Competitors18 from 7 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Günther  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hans Luber  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kurt Behrens  Germany
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The men's 3 metre springboard, also known as the spring-board diving competition, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday 8 July 1912, and Tuesday 9 July 1912. Eighteen divers from seven nations competed.[1]

Results

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The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed a running plain dive and a running forward somersault from the 1 metre board, a standing plain dive and a running plain dive from the 3 metre board, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 3 metre board. Five judges scored each diver, giving two results. Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score. The judges also gave scores more closely resembling the modern scoring system.

First round

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The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification.

Group 1

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Kurt Behrens  Germany 6 80.14
2 Paul Günther  Germany 9 78.14
3 Arthur McAleenan  United States 15 68.02
4 Ernst Brandsten  Sweden 20 65.02
5 Sven Nylund  Sweden 28 62.60
6 Eskil Brodd  Sweden 29 62.60
7 Oskar Wetzell  Finland 33 58.70

Group 2

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 John Jansson  Sweden 5 77.77
2 Albert Zürner  Germany 10 74.64
3 Ernst Eklund  Sweden 16 53.02
4 Carlo Bonfanti  Italy 19 46.81

Group 3

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Hans Luber  Germany 6 77.50
2 Robert Zimmerman  Canada 11 76.60
3 George Gaidzik  United States 16 74.03
4 Herbert Pott  Great Britain 17 73.94
5 Ernfrid Appelqvist  Sweden 25 62.61
6 Axel Runström  Sweden 30 58.42
7 Erik Tjäder  Sweden 35 53.56

Final

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In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.

Place Diver Nation Points Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Günther  Germany 6 79.23
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hans Luber  Germany 9 76.78
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kurt Behrens  Germany 22 73.73
4 Albert Zürner  Germany 23 73.33
5 Robert Zimmerman  Canada 24 72.54
6 Herbert Pott  Great Britain 28 71.45
7 John Jansson  Sweden 32 69.64
8 George Gaidzik  United States 36 68.01

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

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