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

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.

Men's springboard diving at the Games of the V Olympiad
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates	8–9 July 1912
Competitors	18 from 7 nations
Medalists
Paul Günther  Germany Hans Luber  Germany Kurt Behrens  Germany

Results

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

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

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

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

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

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

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
	Paul Günther	Germany	6	79.23
	Hans Luber	Germany	9	76.78
	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

Sources

• Swedish Olympic Committee; Erik Bergvall (December 1913). "The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912" (PDF). Wahlström & Widstrand. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2006.
• Herman de Wael (6 August 2001). "Diving 1912". Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2006.