Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 1956 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 1956 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

* Preliminary round (30 November) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (1 December) – Divers performed four 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 |
| | Bob Clotworthy | United States | 90.07 | 2 | 69.49 | 2 | 159.56 |
| | Donald Harper | United States | 83.42 | 5 | 72.81 | 1 | 156.23 |
| | Joaquín Capilla | Mexico | 90.24 | 1 | 60.45 | 3 | 150.69 |
| 4 | Glen Whitten | United States | 89.20 | 3 | 59.35 | 4 | 148.55 |
| 5 | Gennady Udalov | Soviet Union | 83.06 | 6 | 57.58 | 5 | 140.64 |
| 6 | Roman Brener | Soviet Union | 83.82 | 4 | 55.32 | 8 | 139.14 |
| 7 | Günther Mund | Chile | 80.54 | 7 | 56.99 | 6 | 137.53 |
| 8 | József Gerlach | Hungary | 80.45 | 8 | 55.63 | 7 | 136.08 |
| 9 | Yury Kasakov | Soviet Union | 74.68 | 12 | 54.66 | 9 | 129.34 |
| 10 | William Patrick | Canada | 75.64 | 11 | 51.68 | 10 | 127.32 |
| 10 | Juan Botella | Mexico | 78.27 | 9 | 49.05 | 12 | 127.32 |
| 12 | Yutaka Baba | Japan | 77.77 | 10 | 49.10 | 11 | 126.87 |
| 13 | Ferenc Siák | Hungary | 74.60 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Christian Pire | France | 74.33 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Helge Vasenius | Finland | 73.82 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Peter Tarsey | Great Britain | 72.65 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Arthur Winther | Australia | 71.04 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Ryo Mabuchi | Japan | 70.82 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Joseph McCann | Australia | 69.18 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Ronald Faulds | Australia | 68.84 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Ray Cann | Great Britain | 67.96 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Yoav Raanan | Israel | 65.14 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Fernando Ribeiro | Brazil | 62.07 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Roy Walsh | Great Britain | 58.21 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
