Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard was one of five diving events on the diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics program. The competition was held on Friday, 26 August 1920 and on Saturday, 27 August 1920, at the Stade Nautique d'Antwerp.^[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard diving at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Venue	Stade Nautique d'Antwerp
Dates	26–27 August
Competitors	14 from 9 nations
Medalists
Louis Kuehn  United States Clarence Pinkston  United States Louis Balbach  United States
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A point-for-place system was used. For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive (the best dive earned 1 point, the next-best 2 points, and so on).

Fourteen divers from nine nations competed. Louis Kuehn from the United States won the gold medal. Clarence Pinkston took silver and Louis Balbach won bronze, making a full American podium.

Results

First round

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
1	Louis Kuehn	United States	7	628.15
2	Louis Balbach	United States	8	630.80
3	Gunnar Ekstrand	Sweden	15	560.85
4	Oscar Dose	Sweden	20	543.70
5	Richard Flint	Canada	29	480.70
6	Joseph Callens	Belgium	30	476.40
7	Rémy Weil	France	31	477.30

Group 2

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
1	Gustaf Blomgren	Sweden	7	614.00
2	Clarence Pinkston	United States	8	622.70
3	John Jansson	Sweden	16	549.70
4	Adolpho Wellisch	Brazil	19	522.85
5	Ernest Walmsley	Great Britain	28	453.05
6	Guglielmo De Sanctis	Italy	29	451.35
7	Paul Knuchel	Switzerland	33	431.35

Final

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
	Louis Kuehn	United States	10	675.40
	Clarence Pinkston	United States	11	655.30
	Louis Balbach	United States	15	649.50
4	Gustaf Blomgren	Sweden	19	587.05
5	Gunnar Ekstrand	Sweden	27	559.25
6	John Jansson	Sweden	34	544.75