Beijing time on August 16, the Rio Olympics will start the 10th competition day of the competition, in the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center for diving events, the eighth competition, men's single three-meter springboard preliminaries burst out of the cold, Cao Yuan with a total score of 498.70 points ranked first in the preliminaries to successfully promote the Mexican Pacheco with 488.25 points followed by the U.S. player Epperson with 461.35 points ranked third. 461.35 points to rank third. Defending champion Zakharov ranked 18th to advance to the semifinals, while He Chao played poorly, scoring only 27.75 points in the third jump, and ranked 21st with a total score of 380.35 points, not qualifying for the semifinals.

The Chinese men's team lost the gold medal in this event at the last Olympic Games in London, collecting only silver and bronze medals. The men's three-meter board used to be China's dominant event, but the Chinese team has been missing out on gold several times in recent world competitions, with the title going to Mexican star Pacheco at this year's Diving World Cup in Rio. China's He Chao only harvested the sixth place, Cao Yuan is even did not even enter the final. He Chao and Cao Yuan's main rivals were the Russian duo of Zakharov and Kuznetsov, the good British player Lovell, the German star Haustein, and the Mexican star Pacheco.

There were 29 players in the preliminaries***, and two of China's players had bad luck with their signatures, with Cao Yuan drawing third, Zakharov fifth, Kuznetsov seventh, He Chao eighth, Raffl 12th, Germany's Haustein 18th and Pacheco 27th. Today's gusty winds at the race site made it a bit of a test for the athletes.

For his first jump, He Chao chose a forward tumbling two-and-a-half turns for two weeks, and played very well, getting four 8.5s, two 8.0s and one 7.5, a jump that got him the highest score in the competition, 85.00 points. Cao Yuan's first jump choice was an inward tumbling triple semi-flex and got 76.50 points. Pacheco got 81.60 points, Kuznetsov got 78.20 points, Haustin got 64.50 points, Raffl got 64.60 points and Zakharov played poorly and got only 42.50 points.

For his second jump, He Chao chose the 407C inward tumbling triple semi-flexion with a difficulty factor of 3.4, and he made a major mistake, with the judges giving him 1 5.5, 5 5.0 and 1 4.5 points, giving him only 51.00 points for the jump. Cao Yuan's second jump choice was a reverse tumbling one and a half week turn three and a half week flexion, which got him 80.50 points. Haustein got 82.25 points for his second jump, Pacheco got only 63.00 points, Raffl got 75.25 points, and Zakharov still did not improve his form and got only 50.40 points. For this jump, Japan's Ken Terauchi got only 18.00 points.

The third jump, He Chao chose the difficulty coefficient of 3.7 5172B forward tumbling three and a half weeks turn one week flexion, this jump he made a major error, but also deducted two additional points, only 27.75 points, rankings continue to fall wildly. Cao Yuan opted for a reverse tumbling triple half-bend and got 77.00 points. Pacheco got 81.60 points on his third jump, Kuznetsov got 81.90, Haustin got 61.05, Raffl got a whopping 88.40, and Zakharov continued to play poorly, getting only 47.25 points.

Fourth jump, He Chao chose the reverse tumbling triple semi-flexion, a jump he finally played perfectly, getting three 9.0s, two 8.5s and two 8.0s, and 91.00 points in one jump to improve his ranking. Cao Yuan opted for a backward tumbling triple half-bend and got 93.60 points to remain in first place. Pacheco got 75.90 points for his poor play, Kuznetsov made a major error and got only 43.20 points, Haustin got 76.50 points, Raffl got 70.20 points, and Zakharov got 76.50 points for his return to form.

In the fifth jump, He Chao, whose form had just improved, made another mistake, choosing a backward tumbling triple half-bend, and scoring only 64.80 points. Cao Yuan chose the forward tumbling two-and-a-half turns for two weeks and got 79.90 points. Pacheco had 89.25 points, Kuznetsov had 77.00, Haustin had 74.10, Raffl had just 55.10 and Zakparov continued to chase points as he had a personal high of 87.75 for the match.

In the sixth jump, He Chao chose to impact the forward tumbling four weeks of semi-flexion, but he once again made a mistake, and only got 4 5.5 points, 1 5.0 points and 2 4.5 points, this jump got 60.80 points, the total score of 380.35 points only ranked in the 21st place, not in the semifinals. Cao Yuan chose the same forward tumbling four-week semi-flexion and played a more solid game, scoring 91.20 points and totaling 498.70 points to finish in first place. Pacheco got the highest score of 96.90 points on this maneuver and ranked second with a total score of 488.25 points, American Epperson played solidly throughout the competition and scored more than 70 points on all six jumps and ranked third with a total score of 461.35 points, Kuznetsov scored 93.10 points on his last jump and ranked fourth with a total score of 449.90 points, Haustein ranked sixth, Raffl ranked seventh, and Zach Kharlov had 85.50 points on his final jump for an 18th-place total of 389.90 to advance to the semifinals in last place.

The last jump on the field also appeared a rare low score, from the Malaysian player Azaman, Azaman first five jumps are played more solid, to advance to the semifinals was not very difficult, the last jump he chose to tumble forward two weeks and a half turn three weeks of flexion of difficult movements, the results of only 1 1.5 points, 3 1.0 points and 3 0.5 points, this jump only got 9.75 points! The total score of 341.70 points ranked at the bottom of the list, giving away the semi-final seat almost to hand.