The men's 3 metre springboard competition of the 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

Diving at the 2011 Pan American Games

Diving competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara will be held from October 26 to October 29, at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center...

 at the 2011 Pan American Games

2011 Pan American Games

The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, Puerto Vallarta, Lagos de Moreno and Tapalpa...

 will be held on October 27 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center

Scotiabank Aquatics Center

The Scotiabank Aquatics Center is an aquatics center built for the 2011 Pan American Games in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. It was opened June 22, 2011, built at a cost of $USD31.7...

. The defending Pan American Games champion is Alexandre Despatie

Alexandre Despatie

Alexandre Despatie is a Canadian diver from Laval, Quebec. He was the World champion at the 1 and 3 m springboards from 2005 to 2007 and is the first, and so far only, diver to have been World champion in the three categories . He is also a 36-time Canadian senior diving champion...

 of Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, who will not compete due to an injury. The winner of the competition (if not already qualified

Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

- Qualifying system:For individual diving the top twelve from the 2011 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2012 Diving World Cup will qualify a quota spot...

) will advance to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics

2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the "London 2012 Olympic Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012...

 to be held in London

London

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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.

The individual diving competitions all consist of two rounds. In the first, the divers each perform five dives. All divers advance to the advance to the finals. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of .5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
October 27, 2011	10:00	Preliminaries
October 27, 2011	19:30	Finals

Results

Green denotes finalists

Rank	Diver	Nationality	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank
	Yahel Castillo Yahel Castillo Yahel Ernesto Castillo Huerta is a Mexican diver.-References:...		510.70	1	529.25	1
	Julian Sanchez		474.40	2	480.65	2
	Cesar de Castro		435.95	6	462.15	3
4	Sebastian Villa		449.05	3	458.70	4
5	François Imbeau		422.80	8	443.05	5
6	Kristian Ipsen Kristian Ipsen Kristian Ipsen is an American diver, who has been diving competitvely in 1998. Diving alongside Troy Dumais together, they took the silver medal in the synchronized 3 meter springboard at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy.-Championships:At the 2011 US National Championships in...		434.50	7	429.20	6
7	Edickson Contreras		379.80	10	426.85	7
8	Reuben Ross Reuben Ross Reuben Ross is a Canadian diver. He just recently won the 1m and 3m events at Canadian nationals. He won the 2008 national championships on the 3m, 10m and 10m synchronized and competed in the individual 3m springboard and 10m platform events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He currently...		437.05	5	419.50	8
9	Jorge Pupo		360.25	12	417.75	9
10	Drew Livingston		442.45	4	391.70	10
11	Rene Hernandez		383.30	9	353.40	11
12	Robert Paez		374.90	11	313.80	12
13	Rafael Quintero		326.35	13	–	–
14	Argenis Alvarez		273.10	14	–	–
15	Donato Neglia		256.15	15	–	–
	Diego Carquin			DNF