Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Women's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1948 Summer
Gold:	Vicki Draves
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Zoe Ann Olsen
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Patsy Elsener
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1936
Next:	1952

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was held on Saturday 31 July, on Monday 2 August, and on Tuesday 3 August. It was split into two sets of dives:

Compulsory dives

Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running straight header forward, backward header with pike, running straight isander-half gainer reverse dive, and backward spring and forward dive with pike.

Facultative dives

Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Sixteen divers from eight nations competed.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points
			108.74
			108.23
			101.30
4			100.38
5			93.30
6			91.63
7			89.43
8			87.61
9			87.12
10			86.96
11			86.93
12			83.14
13			74.10
14			72.40
15			70.86
16			58.18

Sources

Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . 31 December 2006 . Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . 1951 . pdf . Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . pp.637–9.
Web site: Diving - women's springboard (London 1948) . 31 December 2006 . Herman de Wael . 9 October 2002.

Notes and References

Diving at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's Springboard . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132257/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/DIV/womens-springboard.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 14 May 2020.