The men's 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 18 to August 19, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three metres above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 29 divers each perform six dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs six dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of six dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 6.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The highest and lowest score from each judge are dropped. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by 0.6, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Results

RankDiverCountryPreliminary Semifinal Final PointsRankPointsRankPoints He Chong 515.50 1 547.25 1 572.90 453.60 9 518.75 2 536.65 Qin Kai 502.95 2 508.50 3 530.10 4 474.85 4 476.35 8 512.65 5 431.65 16 454.40 12 485.60 6 448.40 12 463.15 10 472.50 7 480.65 3 504.55 4 462.10 8 451.65 11 481.5 5 462.05 9 465.15 6 460.35 11 461.05 10 443.05 14 468.90 9 454.60 11 452.80 10 478.25 7 442.50 12 464.75 7 480.95 6 425.90 13 469.45 5 451.95 13 Did not advance 14 430.90 18 444.55 14 Did not advance 15 461.65 8 439.55 15 Did not advance 16 439.85 15 427.45 16 Did not advance 17 431.15 17 412.00 17 Did not advance 18 446.15 13 395.85 18 Did not advance 19 428.25 19 did not advance 20 423.90 20 did not advance 21 419.05 21 did not advance 22 407.55 22 did not advance 23 405.05 23 did not advance 24 400.60 24 did not advance 25 399.40 25 did not advance 26 390.30 26 did not advance 27 388.70 27 did not advance 28 360.15 28 did not advance 29 Son Seong-cheol 353.35 29 did not advance

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20080828214148/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/DV/RPT/DVM001901.shtml