Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard

Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Medalists
Thomas Bimis, Nikolaos Siranidis   Greece   Tobias Schellenberg, Andreas Wels   Germany   Steven Barnett, Robert Newbery   Australia

Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women
Synchronized 3 m springboard		men		women
Synchronized 10 m platform		men		women

The men's synchronized 3 metre springboard was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was held as an outright final:

Final

16 August — Each pair of divers performed five dives freely chosen from the five diving groups, with two dives limited to a 2.0 degree of difficulty and the others without limitation. Divers could perform different dives during the same dive if both presented the same difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the score attained by the pair after all five dives had been performed.

Results

The fifth and final round of dives was stage for a bizarre sequence of events, beginning with a spectator jumping into the pool. The then-leaders Peng Bo and Wang Kenan of China failed their final dive, for which they were awarded zero points. The highly regarded Russian pair, although only in fifth place at the time, had a chance to move up in the standings with their final dive, which had a potentially high-scoring 3.5 level of difficulty. One diver, however, hit the edge of the board with his feet halfway through a somersault (reminiscent of a Greg Louganis incident). The American pair, in second place at the time, also earned shockingly low scores on their final dive by effectively bomb-diving. This left the Greeks, who had already taken their final dive unaware of the imminent melt-down, to claim the gold, Greece's first-ever in diving and the hosts' first gold of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Rank	Divers	Final score after five dives	Score after four dives	Rank after four dives
	Thomas Bimis and Nikolaos Siranidis (GRE)	353.34	269.70	4
	Tobias Schellenberg and Andreas Wels (GER)	350.01	265.35	6
	Steven Barnett and Robert Newbery (AUS)	349.59	271.09	3
4	Jorge Betancourt and Erick Fornaris (CUB)	338.46	254.82	8
5	Tony Ally and Mark Shipman (GBR)	334.98	262.08	7
6	Justin Dumais and Troy Dumais (USA)	327.06	271.41	2
7	Alexander Dobroskok and Dmitri Sautin (RUS)	312.24	266.04	5
8	Peng Bo and Wang Kenan (CHN)	283.89	283.89	1

References

• "Diving Results". Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Yahoo!.