# Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 18 to August 19, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three metres above the surface of the water.
The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 29 divers each perform six dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs six dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of six 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 0.5; scores below 6.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The highest and lowest score from each judge are dropped. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by 0.6, 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.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Country | Preliminary | Preliminary | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Country | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points |
| | He Chong | China | 515.50 | 1 | 547.25 | 1 | 572.90 |
| | Alexandre Despatie | Canada | 453.60 | 9 | 518.75 | 2 | 536.65 |
| | Qin Kai | China | 502.95 | 2 | 508.50 | 3 | 530.10 |
| 4 | Dmitry Sautin | Russia | 474.85 | 4 | 476.35 | 8 | 512.65 |
| 5 | Pavlo Rozenberg | Germany | 431.65 | 16 | 454.40 | 12 | 485.60 |
| 6 | Troy Dumais | United States | 448.40 | 12 | 463.15 | 10 | 472.50 |
| 7 | Yahel Castillo | Mexico | 480.65 | 3 | 504.55 | 4 | 462.10 |
| 8 | Patrick Hausding | Germany | 451.65 | 11 | 481.5 | 5 | 462.05 |
| 9 | Robert Newbery | Australia | 465.15 | 6 | 460.35 | 11 | 461.05 |
| 10 | Juan Urán | Colombia | 443.05 | 14 | 468.90 | 9 | 454.60 |
| 11 | Ken Terauchi | Japan | 452.80 | 10 | 478.25 | 7 | 442.50 |
| 12 | Chris Colwill | United States | 464.75 | 7 | 480.95 | 6 | 425.90 |
| 13 | Joona Puhakka | Finland | 469.45 | 5 | 451.95 | 13 | Did not advance |
| 14 | Nicola Marconi | Italy | 430.90 | 18 | 444.55 | 14 | Did not advance |
| 15 | Illya Kvasha | Ukraine | 461.65 | 8 | 439.55 | 15 | Did not advance |
| 16 | Matthew Mitcham | Australia | 439.85 | 15 | 427.45 | 16 | Did not advance |
| 17 | Aleksandr Dobroskok | Russia | 431.15 | 17 | 412.00 | 17 | Did not advance |
| 18 | Reuben Ross | Canada | 446.15 | 13 | 395.85 | 18 | Did not advance |
| 19 | Jorge Betancourt | Cuba | 428.25 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Javier Illana | Spain | 423.90 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Ramón Fumadó | Venezuela | 419.05 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Constantin Blaha | Austria | 407.55 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Yuriy Shlyakhov | Ukraine | 405.05 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | César Castro | Brazil | 400.60 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Sergei Kuchmasov | Belarus | 399.40 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Ben Swain | Great Britain | 390.30 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Jorge Luis Pupo | Cuba | 388.70 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 28 | Tommaso Marconi | Italy | 360.15 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 29 | Son Seong-cheol | South Korea | 353.35 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |