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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Thomas Bimis,
Nikolaos Siranidis
 Greece
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tobias Schellenberg,
Andreas Wels
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Steven Barnett,
Robert Newbery
 Australia
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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

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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.

Rank Nation Dives Final score
after five dives
Score after
four dives
Rank after
four dives
1 2 3 4 5
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Greece
Thomas Bimis
Nikolaos Siranidis
54.60 52.80 78.30 84.00 83.64 353.34 269.70 4
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Germany
Tobias Schellenberg
Andreas Wels
52.20 52.80 83.16 77.19 84.66 350.01 265.35 6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Australia
Steven Barnett
Robert Newbery
51.60 54.00 80.58 84.66 78.75 349.59 271.09 3
4  Cuba
Jorge Betancourt
Erick Fornaris
52.80 54.60 78.12 69.30 83.64 338.46 254.82 8
5  Great Britain
Tony Ally
Mark Shipman
50.40 49.80 79.98 81.90 72.90 334.98 262.08 7
6  United States
Justin Dumais
Troy Dumais
51.00 51.60 79.05 89.76 55.65 327.06 271.41 2
7  Russia
Alexander Dobroskok
Dmitri Sautin
54.00 57.00 76.50 78.54 46.20 312.24 266.04 5
8  China
Peng Bo
Wang Kenan
51.60 54.00 86.49 91.80 0.00 283.89 283.89 1

References

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

Sources

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  • "Diving Results". Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Yahoo!.
  • Diving. Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad - Results