Diving at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's 3 metre springboard

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The men's 3 metre springboard, also known as the fancy diving competition, was one of two diving events on the Diving at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme, along with the men's 10 metre platform.

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 one-and-a-half somersault and a backward spring and forward dive from the 3 metre board, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 3 metre board.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 First round 1.1.1 Group 1 1.1.2 Group 2 1.1.3 Group 3 1.1.4 Group 4 1.1.5 Group 5 1.2 Semifinals 1.2.1 Semifinal 1 1.2.2 Semifinal 2 1.3 Final 2 Sources

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

The two divers who scored the greatest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the semifinals. A tie in the third group for second place resulted in both divers joining the group winner in advancing, for a total of 11 divers in the semifinals.

[edit] Group 1

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	George Gaidzik	United States of America	82.8 points
2	Heinz Freyschmidt	Germany	78.1 points
3	Robert Zimmerman	Canada	74.0 points
4	Harry Crank	Great Britain	70.3 points
5	Anthony Beckett	Great Britain	67.5 points

[edit] Group 2

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	Albert Zürner	Germany	83.6 points
2	Harold Clarke	Great Britain	78.6 points
3	Anthony Taylor	Great Britain	58.8 points

[edit] Group 3

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	Kurt Behrens	Germany	83.6 points
2	Frank Errington	Great Britain	70.83 points
	Oscar Wetzell	Finland	70.83 points
4	Karl Malmström	Sweden	70.3 points
5	William Hoare	Great Britain	67.8 points

[edit] Group 4

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	Herbert Pott	Great Britain	82.5 points
2	Fritz Nicolai	Germany	67.1 points
3	William Bull	Great Britain	66.0 points
4	Carlo Bonfanti	Italy	65.8 points
5	Sigfrid Larsson	Sweden	64.5 points
6	Reginald Baker	Australasia	61.3 points

[edit] Group 5

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	Gottlob Walz	Germany	81.3 points
2	Harold Grote	United States of America	79.5 points
3	Harold Smyrk	Great Britain	78.3 points
4	Thomas Cross	Great Britain	64.5 points

[edit] Semifinals

The two divers from each semifinal with the highest scores advanced to the final.

[edit] Semifinal 1

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	Kurt Behrens	Germany	83.0 points
2	Gottlob Walz	Germany	80.3 points
3	Herbert Pott	Great Britain	79.6 points
4	Heinz Freyschmidt	Germany	79.3 points
5	Frank Errington	Great Britain	72.6 points
6	Oscar Wetzell	Finland	70.1 points

[edit] Semifinal 2

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	George Gaidzik	United States of America	85.6 points
2	Albert Zürner	Germany	82.8 points
3	Fritz Nicolai	Germany	81.8 points
4	Harold Clarke	Great Britain	81.1 points
5	Harold Grote	United States of America	74.5 points

[edit] Final

A tie for third place resulted in both divers receiving bronze medals.

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
1	Albert Zürner	Germany	85.5 points
2	Kurt Behrens	Germany	85.3 points
3	George Gaidzik	United States of America	80.8 points
	Gottlob Walz	Germany	80.8 points

[edit] Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman (2001). Diving 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 21 May 2006.

The 1908 Summer Olympics in London

Diving at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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