Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing

Beijing

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 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

was held on 10 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

Like all other synchronized diving

Synchronized diving

Synchronized diving is an Olympic sport. First brought to the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in 2000, the event features two divers who attempt to perform identical or mirrored dives...

 competitions at the Olympics, only one round of competition was held. Eight pairs of divers competed. Each pair performed five dives, with both divers from the pair diving at the same time.

Nine judges evaluated each dive, with two each judging the performance of the two divers (the execution judges) and five judges evaluating the synchronization of the pair (the synchronization judges). For each dive, four of the nine scores are ignored--the highest and lowest execution scores, and the highest and lowest synchronization scores. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty, and then multiplied by 0.6 to get a final score for the dive.

Results

Rank	Nation	Dives					Total
		1	2	3	4	5
	Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing is a Chinese female diver from the People's Republic of China. She has won more Olympic medals than any other female diver and has won the 3m springboard event at five consecutive World Championships. She announced her retirement in 2011.... , Wu Minxia Wu Minxia Wu Minxia is a female diver from the People's Republic of China.Wu represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics, earning a gold medal in the 3 metre women's synchronized springboard along with Guo Jingjing before winning a silver medal in the 3 metre women's springboard, coming in second place...	52.80	57.60	75.60	81.90	75.60	343.50
	Julia Pakhalina, Anastasia Pozdnyakova	52.80	51.00	69.30	77.43	73.08	323.61
	Ditte Kotzian Ditte Kotzian Ditte Kotzian is a German diver. She and Heike Fischer won bronze for Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard. She had competed in the two previous Olympics without placing. She and Fischer had previously won a silver medal for Diving at the 2007 World... , Heike Fischer Heike Fischer Heike Fischer is a German diver. She and Ditte Kotzian won bronze for Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard...	51.00	51.60	68.40	70.20	76.50	318.90
4	Kelci Bryant, Ariel Rittenhouse Ariel Rittenhouse Ariel Rittenhouse is an American diving athlete. Rittenhouse won a silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Rittenhouse placed 4th in the synchronized springboard...	52.80	51.00	69.30	69.30	72.00	314.40
5	Briony Cole Briony Cole Briony Cole is an Australian diver who won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, silver and bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and a silver medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.As a child, Cole competed in gymnastics, which led her... , Sharleen Stratton Sharleen Stratton Sharleen Stratton is an Australian diver who won gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games, and competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympics....	52.20	51.60	68.40	67.14	72.00	311.34
6	Noemi Batki Noemi Batki Noemi Batki is an Italian diver. She is a member of the Italian National Diving Team and is sponsored by Trieste Tuffi.... , Francesca Dallapè Francesca Dallapè Francesca Dallapé is an Italian diver.Dallapé finished sixth with Noemi Batki in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event of the 2008 Olympic Games.-References:...	48.00	51.60	68.40	70.20	58.50	296.70
7	Mariya Voloshchenko Mariya Voloshchenko Mariya Viacheslavivna Voloshchenko is a Ukrainian diver.She was born in Luhansk. She finished sixth with Hanna Pysmenska in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event of the 2008 Olympic Games.-References:... , Anna Pysmenska	49.80	48.00	63.80	65.70	65.70	293.10
8	Tandi Gerrard, Hayley Sage	46.80	48.60	53.70	65.29	63.84	278.25