# Diving at the 1964 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 1964 Summer Olympics program.
The competition was split into two phases:
* Preliminary round (12–13 October)
    Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (14 October)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Kenneth Sitzberger | United States | 98.66 | 3 | 61.24 | 1 | 159.90 |
| | Frank Gorman | United States | 105.99 | 1 | 51.64 | 2 | 157.63 |
| | Lawrence Andreasen | United States | 100.31 | 2 | 43.46 | 6 | 143.77 |
| 4 | Hans-Dieter Pophal | United Team of Germany | 91.16 | 8 | 51.42 | 3 | 142.58 |
| 5 | Göran Lundqvist | Sweden | 91.77 | 6 | 46.88 | 4 | 138.65 |
| 6 | Boris Poluliakhi | Soviet Union | 92.94 | 5 | 45.70 | 5 | 138.64 |
| 7 | Mikhail Safonov | Soviet Union | 94.06 | 4 | 39.94 | 8 | 134.00 |
| 8 | Vladimir Vasin | Soviet Union | 91.24 | 7 | 42.24 | 7 | 133.48 |
| 9 | John Candler | Great Britain | 90.69 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 10 | Franco Cagnotto | Italy | 89.54 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 11 | Tadao Tosa | Japan | 89.10 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Luis Niño | Mexico | 87.87 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 13 | Klaus Dibiasi | Italy | 87.68 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Rolf Sperling | United Team of Germany | 86.98 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Alvaro Gaxiola | Mexico | 85.78 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Kurt Mrkwicka | Austria | 85.72 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Horst Rosenfeldt | United Team of Germany | 85.66 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Thomas Dinsley | Canada | 83.02 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Jose Robinson | Mexico | 82.42 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Pentti Koskinen | Finland | 82.00 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Toshio Yamano | Japan | 81.74 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Jerry Anderson | Puerto Rico | 81.07 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Song Jae-ung | South Korea | 75.10 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Shunsuke Kaneto | Japan | 71.59 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Ansuya Prasad | India | 69.04 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Manucher Fasihi | Iran | 67.20 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Terry Rossiter | Rhodesia | 61.06 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |