The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as fancy diving, 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 1928 Summer Olympics

Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, four diving events were contested. The men's plain high diving event was dropped from the Olympic program...

 programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed five compulsory dives from the 3 metre board – running plain header forward, standing backward header, running isander (half gainer), backward spring and forward dive, running header forward with half screw – and six dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either board, for a total of eleven dives. The competition was held from Monday August 6, 1928 to Wednesday August 8, 1928.

Twenty-three divers from fifteen nations competed.

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	Points	Score
1		5	182.10
2		12	148
3		17	134.10
4		20	129.14
5		22	123.70
6		29	112.98
7		37	101.44
8		38	102.48

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	178.94
2		10	164.96
3		15	151.20
4		20	139.24
5		27	129.26
6		28	128.54
7		35	100.14
8		40	94.96

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	169.70
2		11	148.48
3		14	139.82
4		21	132.52
5		24	123.24
6		31	88.84
7		34	81.84

Final

The points and scores are given as in the official report showing Galitzen

Michael Galitzen

Michael Riley Galitzen, also known as Mickey Riley was an American diver who won four total medals, one gold, at the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics....

 second with 14 and Simaika

Farid Simaika

Farid Simaika was an Olympic diver who was born in Alexandria, EgyptEgyptian Farid Simaika was accepting his gold medal for platform diving at the 1928 Olympics, as the Egyptian national anthem was playing, when suddenly the music stopped and the votes were re-counted. He was then given a silver...

third with 13.

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	185.04
2		14	174.06
3		13	172.46
4		18	168.96
5		29.5	154.72
6		31	153.86
7		32.5	149.48
8		37	150.18
9		45	139.78