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

The competition was split into three phases:

Preliminary round 23 August — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive, a twisting dive and a sixth free-choice dive from one of these groups. There were no limitations in degree of difficulty. The 18 divers with the highest total score advanced to the semi-final. Semi-final 24 August — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive and a twisting dive. The overall difficulty degree was limited to 9.5. The 12 divers with the highest combined score from the semi-final and preliminary dives advanced to the final. Final 24 August — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive, a twisting dive and a sixth free-choice dive from one of these groups. There were no limitations in difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the final and semi-final dives.

Results

RankDiverCountryPreliminarySemifinalFinalPointsRankPointsRankTotalRankPointsRankTotal Peng Bo 495.45 2 256.17 2 751.62 2 531.21 1 787.38 517.59 1 254.73 3 772.32 1 501.24 3 755.97 450.06 6 256.38 1 706.44 4 496.89 4 753.274 Wang Feng 444.96 7 240.42 5 685.38 7 510.30 2 750.725 434.70 8 232.02 7 666.72 8 472.23 5 704.256 452.76 5 239.91 6 692.67 6 461.55 7 701.467 489.75 3 228.09 10 717.84 3 469.20 6 697.298 456.15 4 245.64 4 701.79 5 444.36 8 690.009 432.45 9 230.28 8 662.73 9 432.69 9 662.9710 408.75 15 221.85 11 630.60 12 420.84 10 642.6911 419.16 11 219.57 12 638.73 11 410.07 11 629.6412 429.09 10 228.60 9 657.69 10 391.74 12 620.3413 418.32 12 210.90 15 629.22 13 did not advance14 414.69 13 209.91 16 624.60 14 did not advance15 401.52 16 215.61 14 617.13 15 did not advance16 397.71 17 217.05 13 614.76 16 did not advance17 410.97 14 194.82 18 605.79 17 did not advance18 396.90 18 202.98 17 599.88 18 did not advance19 385.80 19 did not advance20 384.63 20 did not advance21 382.56 21 did not advance22 380.07 22 did not advance23 378.93 23 did not advance24 378.72 24 did not advance25 377.61 25 did not advance26 377.19 26 did not advance27 371.85 27 did not advance28 363.75 28 did not advance29 359.22 29 did not advance30 357.09 30 did not advance31 344.40 31 did not advance32 225.87 32 did not advance

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