Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard
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The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
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The competition was split into two sets of dives on separate days:
- Compulsory dives (Monday, 10 August)
- Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight somersault forward, standing header backward with pike, running straight isander-half gainer, standing backward spring and forward somersault with pike, and running pike dive with half-screw forward.
- Facultative dives (Tuesday, 11 August)
- Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).
Twenty-four divers from 15 nations competed.
Results
| Place | Diver | Nation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Richard Degener |  United States | 163.57 |
 | Marshall Wayne | United States | 159.56 |
 | Alan Greene | United States | 146.29 |
| 4 | Tsuneo Shibahara |  Japan | 144.92 |
| 5 | Erhard Weiß |  Germany | 141.21 |
| 6 | Leo Esser | Germany | 137.99 |
| 7 | Winfried Mahraun | Germany | 134.61 |
| 8 | Tomio Koyanagi | Japan | 133.07 |
| 9 | František Leikert |  Czechoslovakia | 131.98 |
| 10 | Branko Ziherl |  Yugoslavia | 125.26 |
| 11 | Ismael Ramzi |  Egypt | 121.67 |
| 12 | Roger Heinkelé |  France | 117.72 |
| 13 | Ilmari Niemeläinen |  Finland | 116.80 |
| 14 | Ron Masters |  Australia | 115.72 |
| 15 | Hans Haasmann |  Netherlands | 111.44 |
| 15 | Josef Nesvadba | Czechoslovakia | 111.44 |
| 17 | Karl Steiner |  Austria | 109.54 |
| 18 | László Hidvégi |  Hungary | 107.49 |
| 19 | Ahmed Ibrahim Kamel | Egypt | 105.02 |
| 20 | Frederick Hodges |  Great Britain | 102.98 |
| 21 | Frédéric Boeni |  Switzerland | 95.84 |
| 22 | László Hódi | Hungary | 85.42 |
| 23 | Max Happle | Switzerland | 80.24 |
| 24 | Alfredo Álvarez Calderón |  Peru | DNF |