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

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venue Swimming Stadium Tourelles
Dates July 16 (semifinals)
July 17 (final)
Competitors 17 from 9 nations
Medalists
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1st Albert White  United States
2nd Pete Desjardins  United States
3rd Clarence Pinkston  United States
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Diving at the
1924 Summer Olympics
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3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women
Plain high diving   men  

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 July 16, 1924, and Thursday July 17, 1924.

Seventeen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

First round

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

Group 1

Place Diver Points Score
1  Clarence Pinkston (USA) 5 672
2  Dick Eve (AUS) 13 522.3
3  Curt Sjöberg (SWE) 15 523
4  Rémy Weil (FRA) 18 497.9
5  Henk Lotgering (NED) 25 459.2
6  Eric MacDonald (GBR) 29 433.2

Group 2

Place Diver Points Score
1  Albert White (USA) 5 681.9
2  Adolf Hellquist (SWE) 13 494.5
3  Henk Hemsing (NED) 14 455.2
4  Gregory Matveieff (GBR) 21 414.1
5  Antoine Jacob (FRA) 23 425.4
6  Arthur Bischoff (SUI) 29 385

Group 3

Place Diver Points Score
1  Pete Desjardins (USA) 5 662.8
2  Edmund Lindmark (SWE) 10 557
3  Julius Balasz (TCH) 16 488
4  Paul Raeth (FRA) 19 455.5
5  Atte Lindqvist (FIN) 25 398.8

Final

Place Diver Points Score
1  Albert White (USA) 7 696.4
2  Pete Desjardins (USA) 8 693.2
3  Clarence Pinkston (USA) 15 653
4  Edmund Lindmark (SWE) 22 599.1
5  Dick Eve (AUS) 26 564.3
6  Adolf Hellquist (SWE) 30 544.9
7  Curt Sjöberg (SWE) 34 538.3
8  Henk Hemsing (NED) 39 490.8
9  Julius Balasz (TCH) 44 463.1

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