| Venue: Swimming Stadium Tourelles. 17 competitors from 9 nations. |
| Final Thursday, 17th July | Pts | Score | | 1. Albert White |  USA | 7 | 696.4 | | 2. Pete Desjardins | USA | 8 | 693.2 | | 3. Clarence Pinkston | USA | 15 | 653 | | 4. Edmund Lindmark |  SWE | 22 | 599.1 | | 5. Dick Eve |  AUS | 26 | 564.3 | | 6. Adolf Hellquist | SWE | 30 | 544.9 | | 7. Curt Sjöberg | SWE | 34 | 538.3 | | 8. Henk Hemsing |  NED | 39 | 490.8 | | 9. Julius Balasz |  TCH | 44 | 463.1 |
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The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards.
Divers performed six compulsory dives - standing backward plain dive, standing forward dive with twist, standing inward piked dive with twist, standing reverse piked dive, standing reverse plain dive with twist (3 metre board) and a standing forward somersault piked dive (1 metre board) - two jury-drawn dives and four dives of the competitor's choice for a total of twelve dives.
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| | | Wedensday 16th July. First 3 from each group advanced to Final. |
| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Clarence Pinkston | USA | 5 | 672 | | 2. Dick Eve | AUS | 13 | 522.3 | | 3. Curt Sjöberg | SWE | 15 | 523 | | 4. Rémy Weil |  FRA | 18 | 497.9 | | 5. Henk Lotgering | NED | 25 | 459.2 | | 6. Eric MacDonald |  GBR | 29 | 433.2 |
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| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Albert White | USA | 5 | 681.9 | | 2. Adolf Hellquist | SWE | 13 | 494.5 | | 3. Henk Hemsing | NED | 14 | 455.2 | | 4. Gregory Matveieff | GBR | 21 | 414.1 | | 5. Antoine Jacob | FRA | 23 | 425.4 | | 6. Arthur Bischoff |  SUI | 29 | 385 |
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| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Pete Desjardins | USA | 5 | 662.8 | | 2. Edmund Lindmark | SWE | 10 | 557 | | 3. Julius Balasz | TCH | 16 | 488 | | 4. Paul Raeth | FRA | 19 | 455.5 | | 5. Atte Lindqvist |  FIN | 25 | 398.8 |
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| Olympic Champions Men 3m Springboard | | 2016: | Cao Yuan |  CHN | | 2012: | Ilya Zakharov |  RUS | | 2008: | He Chong | CHN | | 2004: | Peng Bo | CHN | | 2000: | Xiong Ni | CHN | | 1996: | Xiong Ni | CHN | | 1992: | Mark Lenzi | USA | | 1988: | Greg Louganis | USA | | 1984: | Greg Louganis | USA | | 1980: | Aleksandr Portnov |  URS | | 1976: | Phil Boggs | USA | | 1972: | Vladimir Vasin | URS | | 1968: | Bernard Wrightson | USA | | 1964: | Kenneth Sitzberger | USA | | 1960: | Gary Tobian | USA | | 1956: | Bob Clotworthy | USA | | 1952: | David Browning | USA | | 1948: | Bruce Harlan | USA | | 1936: | Richard Degener | USA | | 1932: | Michael Galitzen | USA | | 1928: | Pete Desjardins | USA | | 1924: | Albert White | USA | | 1920: | Louis Kuehn | USA | | 1912: | Paul Günther |  GER | | 1908: | Albert Zürner | GER |
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