The men's 3 metre springboard, also known as the spring-board diving competition, was one of four diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

 events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics

At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, four diving events were contested. For the first time, women competed in diving at the Olympic Games...

 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

Somersault

A somersault is an acrobatic exercise in which a person does a full 360° flip, moving the feet over the head. A somersault can be performed either forwards, backwards, or sideways and can be executed in the air or on the ground...

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 grops 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		6	80.14
2		9	78.14
3		15	68.02
4		20	65.02
5		28	62.60
6		29	62.60
7		33	58.70

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	77.77
2		10	74.64
3		16	53.02
4		19	46.81

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		6	77.50
2		11	76.60
3		16	74.03
4		17	73.94
5		25	62.61
6		30	58.42
7		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		6	79.23
2		9	76.78
3		22	73.73
4		23	73.33
5		24	72.54
6		28	71.45
7		32	69.64
8		36	68.01