The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. Defending champion Greg Louganis completed the preliminary qualifying after hitting his head on the springboard while performing a reverse 2½ pike in the third round and suffering a concussion, and continued to the finals to win the gold medal.
The competition was split into two phases:
Preliminary round (19 September) Divers performed eleven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final. Final (20 September) Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.
Results Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final Points Rank Points 629.67 3 730.80 Tan Liangde 682.65 1 704.88 Li Deliang 607.77 4 665.28 4 642.60 2 661.47 5 588.15 7 642.99 6 594.36 5 616.02 7 581.01 8 598.77 8 591.45 6 588.33 9 579.63 9 570.60 10 561.81 12 563.37 11 577.50 10 562.05 12 570.63 11 554.16 13 553.74 13 Did not advance 14 549.99 14 Did not advance 15 549.09 15 Did not advance 16 542.67 16 Did not advance 17 541.14 17 Did not advance 18 540.72 18 Did not advance 19 532.92 19 Did not advance 20 532.62 20 Did not advance 21 511.98 21 Did not advance 22 500.76 22 Did not advance 23 499.41 23 Did not advance 24 496.17 24 Did not advance 25 483.12 25 Did not advance 26 478.74 26 Did not advance 27 475.44 27 Did not advance 28 470.19 28 Did not advance 29 457.65 29 Did not advance 30 446.92 30 Did not advance 31 387.60 31 Did not advance 32 362.58 32 Did not advance 33 347.22 33 Did not advance 34 298.08 34 Did not advance 35 263.16 35 Did not advance
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