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Springboard, Men

Date21 – 22 July 1976
StatusOlympic
LocationPiscine olympique, Montréal, Québec
Participants28 from 14 countries
Format3 metre springboard.

Phil Boggs (USA) had won the 1973 and 1975 World Championship and was favored as the US Olympic Trials approached. But Boggs was defeated at the US Trials by a young 16-year-old named Greg Louganis. But the Olympics were different as Boggs was by far the most consistent diver. He led the qualifying and took the lead in the final on the first dive and was never headed as he won the gold medal. He had the highest score in the final on 8 of the 11 dives, and for his 22 dives (qualifying and final), he had only two judges’ marks of 6.5, with all marks ranging from 7.0 to 9.5.

Louganis did not win a medal, but on his fourth qualifying dive, became the Nadia Comaneči of diving when he was awarded a 10.0 from judge #3, the first perfect score ever given in Olympic diving. In the final he was in third place after nine dives before stumbling on his 3½ sommie to drop back to sixth. He would come back to win this event, and the platform, in 1984 and 1988.

The silver went to Italy’s Franco Cagnotto, repeating his finish from München. Cagnotto’s teammate, platform superstar Klaus Dibiasi was considered a challenger, having placed second to Boggs at the 1973 and 1975 Worlds, but he was hampered by a sore Achilles’ tendon and placed last in the finals.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Phil BoggsUSAGold
2Franco CagnottoITASilver
3Aleksandr KosenkovURSBronze
4Falk HoffmannGDR
5Rob CraggUSA
6Greg LouganisUSA
7Carlos GirónMEX
8Klaus DibiasiITA
9 r1/2Don WagstaffAUS
10 r1/2Norbert HudaFRG
11 r1/2Boris KozlovURS
12 r1/2Vyacheslav StrakhovURS
13 r1/2Frank TaubertGDR
14 r1/2Dieter WaskowGDR
15 r1/2Dieter DörrFRG
16 r1/2Scott CranhamCAN
17 r1/2Porfirio BecerrilMEX
18 r1/2Chris SnodeGBR
19 r1/2Skip PhoenixCAN
20 r1/2Trevor SimpsonGBR
21 r1/2Steve FoleyAUS
22 r1/2Claudio De MiroITA
23 r1/2Ken ArmstrongCAN
24 r1/2Alain GoosenFRA
25 r1/2Ricardo CamachoESP
26 r1/2Sangwan FoengdeeTHA
27 r1/2Sulaiman QabazardKUW
28 r1/2Ahmet KizilTUR

Qualifying (21 July 1976 — 14:00-21:15)

Eleven dives. Top 8 advanced to the final.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Phil BoggsUSA621.51Q
2Rob CraggUSA582.99Q
3Falk HoffmannGDR573.00Q
4Klaus DibiasiITA572.82Q
5Aleksandr KosenkovURS557.52Q
6Carlos GirónMEX547.14Q
7Franco CagnottoITA542.31Q
8Greg LouganisUSA530.85Q
9Don WagstaffAUS529.11
10Norbert HudaFRG518.88
11Boris KozlovURS516.42
12Vyacheslav StrakhovURS510.63
13Frank TaubertGDR493.68
14Dieter WaskowGDR491.70
15Dieter DörrFRG491.40
16Scott CranhamCAN485.97
17Porfirio BecerrilMEX484.41
18Chris SnodeGBR479.79
19Skip PhoenixCAN458.10
20Trevor SimpsonGBR450.81
21Steve FoleyAUS447.15
22Claudio De MiroITA446.61
23Ken ArmstrongCAN442.47
24Alain GoosenFRA441.36
25Ricardo CamachoESP408.84
26Sangwan FoengdeeTHA317.61
27Sulaiman QabazardKUW216.93
28Ahmet KizilTUR205.68

Final (22 July 1976 — 21:00)

Eleven dives.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Phil BoggsUSA619.05
2Franco CagnottoITA570.48
3Aleksandr KosenkovURS567.24
4Falk HoffmannGDR553.53
5Rob CraggUSA548.19
6Greg LouganisUSA528.96
7Carlos GirónMEX523.59
8Klaus DibiasiITA516.18