The men's synchronized 3 metre springboard was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics programme.

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 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 NationDives Final scoreafter five dives Score afterfour dives Rank afterfour dives1 2345 Thomas Bimis Nikolaos Siranidis 54.60 52.80 78.30 84.00 83.64 353.34 269.70 4 Tobias Schellenberg Andreas Wels 52.20 52.80 83.16 77.19 84.66 350.01 265.35 6 Steven Barnett Robert Newbery 51.60 54.00 80.58 84.66 78.75 349.59 271.09 34 Jorge Betancourt Erick Fornaris 52.80 54.60 78.12 69.30 83.64 338.46 254.82 85 Tony Ally Mark Shipman 50.40 49.80 79.98 81.90 72.90 334.98 262.08 76 Justin Dumais Troy Dumais 51.00 51.60 79.05 89.76 55.65 327.06 271.41 27 Alexander Dobroskok Dmitri Sautin 54.00 57.00 76.50 78.54 46.20 312.24 266.04 58 Peng Bo Wang Kenan 51.60 54.00 86.49 91.80 0.00 283.89 283.89 1

References

Sources

Diving. Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad - Results