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
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Thomas Bimis, Nikolaos Siranidis |
 Greece
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Tobias Schellenberg, Andreas Wels |
 Germany
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Steven Barnett, Robert Newbery |
 Australia
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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:
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.
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