Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Women's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1952 Summer
Gold:	Pat McCormick
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Madeleine Moreau
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1948
Next:	1956

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

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

• Preliminary round (29 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (30 July) – Divers performed five 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		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
			71.85	1	75.45	1	147.30
			67.65	2	71.69	3	139.34
			54.09	8	73.48	2	127.57
4			56.18	4	60.68	4	116.86
5			59.14	3	57.24	6	116.38
6			54.18	7	59.65	5	113.83
7			55.69	5	56.29	7	111.98
8			54.82	6	54.00	8	108.82
9			52.97	9	did not advance
10			52.15	10	did not advance
11			51.28	11	did not advance
12			49.44	12	did not advance
13			48.47	13	did not advance
14			47.33	14	did not advance
15			46.88	15	did not advance

Sources

• Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091045/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf . dead . 11 April 2008 . 1 January 2007 . The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . 1955 . pdf . The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . p. 598 .
• Web site: Diving - women's springboard (Helsinki 1952) . 1 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 9 October 2002.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women . OlyMADMen . 15 May 2020.