The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. It was the 13th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Competition format The competition was split into two phases:
Preliminary round (19–20 October) Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final. Final (20 October) Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.
Schedule All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)
DateTimeRoundSaturday-Sunday, 19–20 October 196810:00-17:00PreliminarySunday, 20 October 196817:00Final
Results Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final Points Rank Dive 1 Dive 2 Dive 3 Points Rank Total 102.95 3 22.96 21.28 22.96 67.20 1 170.15 104.68 2 17.82 17.36 19.88 55.06 4 159.74 105.47 1 15.12 21.84 15.66 52.62 5 158.09 4 99.13 6 18.48 17.94 20.16 56.58 3 155.71 5 95.92 9 18.90 18.76 22.12 59.78 2 155.70 6 100.61 4 15.68 14.00 21.46 51.14 8 151.75 7 99.58 5 19.04 16.24 16.64 51.92 7 151.50 8 97.84 7 19.24 17.42 15.68 52.34 6 150.18 9 92.77 12 12.04 17.36 18.85 48.25 9 141.02 10 95.42 11 12.04 16.52 16.10 44.66 10 140.08 11 95.73 10 14.56 11.48 17.82 43.86 11 139.59 12 95.99 8 16.33 16.52 8.96 41.81 12 137.80 13 91.45 13 did not advance 14 90.68 14 did not advance 15 88.65 15 did not advance 16 88.43 16 did not advance 17 87.86 17 did not advance 18 86.80 18 did not advance 19 85.90 19 did not advance 20 84.32 20 did not advance 21 79.97 21 did not advance 22 Song Jae-Ung 79.66 22 did not advance 23 76.80 23 did not advance 24 76.19 24 did not advance 25 74.62 25 did not advance 26 72.72 26 did not advance 27 68.83 27 did not advance 28 62.43 28 did not advance DNS - did not advance DNS - did not advance
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