# Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.
The competition was split into two phases on different days:
* Preliminary round (27 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (28 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | David Browning | United States | 89.59 | 1 | 115.70 | 1 | 205.29 |
| | Miller Anderson | United States | 88.00 | 2 | 111.84 | 2 | 199.84 |
| | Bob Clotworthy | United States | 80.64 | 3 | 104.28 | 3 | 184.92 |
| 4 | Joaquín Capilla | Mexico | 79.42 | 4 | 98.91 | 4 | 178.33 |
| 5 | Roman Brener | Soviet Union | 69.37 | 7 | 96.26 | 5 | 165.63 |
| 6 | Milton Busin | Brazil | 67.97 | 8 | 87.94 | 6 | 155.91 |
| 7 | Anthony Turner | Great Britain | 71.36 | 5 | 80.54 | 7 | 151.90 |
| 8 | Aleksey Zigalov | Soviet Union | 71.25 | 6 | 80.06 | 8 | 151.31 |
| 9 | Yoav Raanan | Israel | 67.70 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 10 | Franz Worisch | Austria | 67.18 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 11 | Hans Aderhold | Germany | 67.09 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Werner Sobeck | Germany | 66.75 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 13 | Gennady Udalov | Soviet Union | 65.99 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Helge Vasenius | Finland | 65.41 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Katsuichi Mori | Japan | 65.23 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Peter Heatly | Great Britain | 63.37 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Ahmed Kamel Aly | Egypt | 62.95 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Kamal Ali Hassan | Egypt | 62.68 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Rodolfo Perea | Mexico | 62.36 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Peter Elliott | Great Britain | 61.85 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Alberto Capilla | Mexico | 61.85 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Willem Welgemoed | South Africa | 61.64 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Frank Landqvist | Sweden | 60.11 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Ronald Faulds | Australia | 59.90 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Frank Gosling | Bermuda | 59.57 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Raymond Mulinghausen | France | 59.52 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Gunnar Johansson | Sweden | 59.11 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 28 | Mickey Johnson | Bermuda | 58.70 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 29 | Olavi Heinonen | Finland | 58.06 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 30 | Henri Goosen | France | 57.79 | 30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 31 | Allan Smith | Ceylon | 55.00 | 31 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 32 | Lamberto Mari | Italy | 54.42 | 32 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 33 | Ahmed Fahti Mohamed Hashad | Egypt | 50.04 | 33 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 34 | Francis Murphy | Australia | 48.42 | 34 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 35 | Heinz Schaub | Switzerland | 47.15 | 35 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 36 | Eduardo Fereda | Venezuela | 41.98 | 36 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
The divers were distracted by a photographer in a frogman suit who stationed himself in the pool to take pictures.