Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard was one of four diving events included in the Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Medalists
Xiong Ni  China Yu Zhuocheng  China Mark Lenzi  United States
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The competition was split into three phases:

Preliminary round

29 July — Each diver performed a set number of dives without any limitation on the difficulty degree. The 18 divers with the highest total score advanced to the semi-final.

Semi-final

28 July — Each diver performed a set number of dives without any limitation on the difficulty degree. The 12 divers with the highest combined score from the semi-final and preliminary dives advanced to the final.

Final

29 July — Each diver performed a set number of dives, without limitation on the difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the final and semi-final dives.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Semi-final				Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Xiong Ni	China	463.02	1	231.45	1	694.47	1	470.01	1	701.46
	Yu Zhuocheng	China	438.93	2	223.41	5	662.34	2	467.52	2	690.93
	Mark Lenzi	United States	372.03	9	229.74	2	601.77	7	456.76	3	686.49
4	Scott Donie	United States	414.03	4	223.86	4	637.89	4	443.07	4	666.93
5	Dmitri Sautin	Russia	391.74	6	229.74	2	621.48	5	414.93	6	644.67
6	Michael Murphy	Australia	419.13	3	220.08	6	639.21	3	420.87	5	640.95
7	Jan Hempel	Germany	358.26	13	219.99	7	578.25	10	402.33	8	622.32
8	Fernando Platas	Mexico	382.83	8	217.62	8	600.45	8	402.36	7	619.98
9	Valery Statsenko	Russia	357.18	15	217.53	9	574.71	11	380.16	11	597.69
10	Andrey Semenyuk	Belarus	385.32	7	202.23	16	587.55	9	393.33	9	595.56
11	Roman Volod'kov	Ukraine	359.85	12	210.30	10	570.15	12	382.83	10	593.13
12	Andreas Wels	Germany	405.33	5	207.21	11	612.54	6	376.35	12	583.56
13	Evan Stewart	Zimbabwe	361.53	11	206.43	12	567.96	13	did not advance
14	Richard Frece	Austria	365.73	10	197.91	17	563.64	14	did not advance
15	Davide Lorenzini	Italy	356.55	16	202.80	15	559.35	15	did not advance
16	Philippe Comtois	Canada	357.75	14	193.53	18	551.28	16	did not advance
17	Imre Lengyel	Hungary	346.74	17	204.51	13	551.25	17	did not advance
18	Tony Ally	Great Britain	345.33	18	203.46	14	548.79	18	did not advance
19	David Bédard	Canada	342.33	19	did not advance
20	Jimmy Sjödin	Sweden	339.93	20	did not advance
21	Vyacheslav Khamulkin	Belarus	331.86	21	did not advance
22	Joakim Andersson	Sweden	331.83	22	did not advance
23	Maksym Lapyn	Ukraine	328.23	23	did not advance
24	Bob Morgan	Great Britain	318.69	24	did not advance
25	Dario di Fazio	Venezuela	317.04	25	did not advance
26	Nikolaos Siranidis	Greece	316.50	26	did not advance
27	Tony Iglesias	Bolivia	307.83	27	did not advance
28	Russell Butler	Australia	305.79	28	did not advance
29	Ramon Sandin	Puerto Rico	302.55	29	did not advance
30	Joel Rodríguez	Mexico	296.91	30	did not advance
31	José Miguel Gil	Spain	295.47	31	did not advance
32	Lee Jong-hwa	South Korea	293.52	32	did not advance
33	Ali Al-Hasan	Kuwait	272.40	33	did not advance
34	Suchart Pichi	Thailand	257.13	34	did not advance
35	Janaka Biyanwila	Sri Lanka	247.44	35	did not advance
36	Rafael Álvarez	Spain	208.83	36	did not advance
37	Chen Han-hung	Chinese Taipei	194.13	37	did not advance
38	Siniša Žugić	FR Yugoslavia	181.17	38	did not advance
39	Sergey Orin	Tajikistan	162.66	39	did not advance