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Springboard, Men

Date	30 – 31 July 1948
Status	Olympic
Location	Wembley Arena, Wembley, London
Participants	27 from 16 countries
Format	3 metre springboard. Final round only. Five compulsory and 5 optional dives.

Bruce Harlan led through the preliminaries in this event. Miller Anderson had the best score of the final five dives, but he had only been fourth in the preliminaries and the scores carried over. Thus, Harlan won the gold medal with Anderson second. American Sammy Lee completed the sweep by earning bronze. Lee would later win platform gold in London and defend that title in Helsinki. Anderson would repeat as the silver medalist in this event in Helsinki.

Harlan and Anderson both died young. In 1959, Harlan was involved in a diving exhibition. At the end, he helped to take down the scaffolding for the exhibition, when he fell 27 feet to his death. Anderson had been a decorated fighter pilot in World War II but, at age 42, he died from a heart attack.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Preliminary Round	Final
1	189	Bruce Harlan	USA	163.64	52.28 (1)	111.36 (2)	Gold
2	188	Miller Anderson	USA	157.29	44.65 (4)	112.64 (1)	Silver
3	190	Sammy Lee	USA	145.52	46.99 (2)	98.53 (3)	Bronze
4	183	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	141.79	46.87 (3)	94.92 (4)
5	176	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	126.55	42.18 (5)	84.37 (5)
6	185	Svante Johansson	SWE	120.20	41.75 (7)	78.45 (6)
7	170	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	119.90	41.97 (6)	77.93 (7)
8	169	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	114.59	37.48 (15)	77.11 (8)
9	166	George Athans	CAN	114.13	38.22 (13)	75.91 (10)
10	163	Frank Gosling	BER	113.98	40.12 (9)	73.86 (14)
11	164	Milton Busin	BRA	113.86	38.58 (12)	75.28 (11)
12	191	Franz Worisch	AUT	112.15	37.62 (14)	74.53 (13)
13	178	Peter Heatly	GBR	111.73	39.95 (10)	71.78 (17)
14	174	Roger Heinkelé	FRA	110.78	34.14 (22)	76.64 (9)
15	171	Ismael Ramzi	EGY	110.18	36.89 (17)	73.29 (15)
16	161	David Norris	AUS	109.67	35.08 (20)	74.59 (12)
17	184	Diego Mariscal	MEX	107.78	40.22 (8)	67.56 (20)
18	179	Charles Johnson	GBR	105.32	36.78 (18)	68.54 (19)
19	162	Willi Lippa	AUT	103.18	30.50 (26)	72.68 (16)
20	175	Guy Hernandez	FRA	102.89	36.89 (16)	66.00 (21)
21	165	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	102.22	31.36 (25)	70.86 (18)
22	172	Mohamed Ibrahim	EGY	97.52	35.51 (19)	62.01 (22)
23	177	Peter Elliott	GBR	91.23	39.13 (11)	52.10 (23)
24	168	José Castillo	CUB	84.81	34.55 (21)	50.26 (24)
25	186	Ernst Strupler	SUI	80.09	32.81 (24)	47.28 (25)
26	167	Günther Mund	CHI	68.08	25.76 (27)	42.32 (26)
DNF	–	Eddie Heron	IRL	–	33.17 (23)	– (DNS)		1
DNS	182	S. Kalapos	HUN	–	–	–
DNS	180	Béla Balla	HUN	–	–	–
DNS	181	László Hidvégi	HUN	–	–	–
DNS	187	Zouheir Shourbagi	SYR	–	–	–

Preliminary Round

Date	30 July 1948 — 09:00
Format	Five optional dives.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points
1	29	Bruce Harlan	USA	52.28
2	27	Sammy Lee	USA	46.99
3	16	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	46.87
4	31	Miller Anderson	USA	44.65
5	19	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	42.18
6	26	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	41.97
7	21	Svante Johansson	SWE	41.75
8	17	Diego Mariscal	MEX	40.22
9	15	Frank Gosling	BER	40.12
10	11	Peter Heatly	GBR	39.95
11	24	Peter Elliott	GBR	39.13
12	23	Milton Busin	BRA	38.58
13	22	George Athans	CAN	38.22
14	30	Franz Worisch	AUT	37.62
15	7	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	37.48
16	14	Guy Hernandez	FRA	36.89
17	25	Ismael Ramzi	EGY	36.89
18	8	Charles Johnson	GBR	36.78
19	13	Mohamed Ibrahim	EGY	35.51
20	28	David Norris	AUS	35.08
21	6	José Castillo	CUB	34.55
22	3	Roger Heinkelé	FRA	34.14
23	10	Eddie Heron	IRL	33.17
24	5	Ernst Strupler	SUI	32.81
25	1	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	31.36
26	18	Willi Lippa	AUT	30.50
27	20	Günther Mund	CHI	25.76

Final Round

Date	31 July 1948 — 14:00
Format	Five compulsory dives (forward running header [1.3], back header [1.7], reverse running half gainer [1.9], backward spring-forward dive [1.2], forward running full twist [2.0]).

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points
1	26	Miller Anderson	USA	112.64
2	24	Bruce Harlan	USA	111.36
3	22	Sammy Lee	USA	98.53
4	11	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	94.92
5	14	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	84.37
6	16	Svante Johansson	SWE	78.45
7	21	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	77.93
8	5	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	77.11
9	2	Roger Heinkelé	FRA	76.64
10	17	George Athans	CAN	75.91
11	18	Milton Busin	BRA	75.28
12	23	David Norris	AUS	74.59
13	25	Franz Worisch	AUT	74.53
14	10	Frank Gosling	BER	73.86
15	20	Ismael Ramzi	EGY	73.29
16	13	Willi Lippa	AUT	72.68
17	7	Peter Heatly	GBR	71.78
18	1	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	70.86
19	6	Charles Johnson	GBR	68.54
20	12	Diego Mariscal	MEX	67.56
21	9	Guy Hernandez	FRA	66.00
22	8	Mohamed Ibrahim	EGY	62.01
23	19	Peter Elliott	GBR	52.10
24	4	José Castillo	CUB	50.26
25	3	Ernst Strupler	SUI	47.28
26	15	Günther Mund	CHI	42.32
DNS	–	Eddie Heron	IRL	–