Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's springboard diving at the Games of the V Olympiad
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 8–9
Competitors	18 from 7 nations
Medalists
Paul Günther  Germany Hans Luber  Germany Kurt Behrens  Germany

Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men
10 m platform		men		women
Plain high diving		men

The men's 3 metre springboard, also known as the spring-board diving competition, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday July 8, 1912, and Tuesday July 9, 1912.

Eighteen divers from seven nations competed.

Results

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 standing plain dive and a running plain dive from the 3 metre board, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 3 metre board. Five judges scored each diver, giving two results. Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score. The judges also gave scores more closely resembling the modern scoring system.

First round

The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification.

Group 1

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	Kurt Behrens (GER)	6	80.14
2	Paul Günther (GER)	9	78.14
3	Arthur McAleenan (USA)	15	68.02
4	Ernst Brandsten (SWE)	20	65.02
5	Sven Nylund (SWE)	28	62.60
6	Eskil Brodd (SWE)	29	62.60
7	Oskar Wetzell (FIN)	33	58.70

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	John Jansson (SWE)	5	77.77
2	Albert Zürner (GER)	10	74.64
3	Ernst Eklund (SWE)	16	53.02
4	Carlo Bonfanti (ITA)	19	46.81

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	Hans Luber (GER)	6	77.50
2	22x20px Robert Zimmerman (CAN)	11	76.60
3	George Gaidzik (USA)	16	74.03
4	Herbert Pott (GBR)	17	73.94
5	Ernfrid Appelqvist (SWE)	25	62.61
6	Axel Runström (SWE)	30	58.42
7	Erik Tjäder (SWE)	35	53.56

Final

In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	Paul Günther (GER)	6	79.23
2	Hans Luber (GER)	9	76.78
3	Kurt Behrens (GER)	22	73.73
4	Albert Zürner (GER)	23	73.33
5	22x20px Robert Zimmerman (CAN)	24	72.54
6	Herbert Pott (GBR)	28	71.45
7	John Jansson (SWE)	32	69.64
8	George Gaidzik (USA)	36	68.01