Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard diving
at the Games of the VII Olympiad
VenueStade Nautique d'Antwerp
Dates26–27 August
Competitors14 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Louis Kuehn  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Clarence Pinkston  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Louis Balbach  United States
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The men's 3 metre springboard was one of five diving events on the diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Friday, 26 August 1920 and on Saturday, 27 August 1920, at the Stade Nautique d'Antwerp.[1]

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).

Fourteen divers from nine nations competed. Louis Kuehn from the United States won the gold medal. Clarence Pinkston took silver and Louis Balbach won bronze, making a full American podium.

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 Louis Kuehn  United States 7 628.15
2 Louis Balbach  United States 8 630.80
3 Gunnar Ekstrand  Sweden 15 560.85
4 Oscar Dose  Sweden 20 543.70
5 Richard Flint  Canada 29 480.70
6 Joseph Callens  Belgium 30 476.40
7 Rémy Weil  France 31 477.30

Group 2

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Gustaf Blomgren  Sweden 7 614.00
2 Clarence Pinkston  United States 8 622.70
3 John Jansson  Sweden 16 549.70
4 Adolpho Wellisch  Brazil 19 522.85
5 Ernest Walmsley  Great Britain 28 453.05
6 Guglielmo De Sanctis  Italy 29 451.35
7 Paul Knuchel  Switzerland 33 431.35

Final

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Louis Kuehn  United States 10 675.40
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Clarence Pinkston  United States 11 655.30
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Louis Balbach  United States 15 649.50
4 Gustaf Blomgren  Sweden 19 587.05
5 Gunnar Ekstrand  Sweden 27 559.25
6 John Jansson  Sweden 34 544.75

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1920 Antwerp 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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