Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Women's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1960 Summer
Gold:	Ingrid Krämer
Goldnoc:	EUA
Silver:	Paula Jean Myers-Pope
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Elizabeth Ferris
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	1956
Next:	1964

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as 3-metre springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into three phases:

1. Preliminary round (26 August)

Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.^[2]

1. Semi-final (27 August)

Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.

1. Final (27 August)

Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Semi-final				Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
			56.23	1	42.37	1	98.60	1	57.21	1	155.81
			52.67	2	37.35	6	90.02	4	51.22	2	141.24
			52.37	3	37.09	7	89.46	5	46.63	4	139.09
4			50.64	8	38.14	4	88.78	7	49.04	3	137.82
5			52.35	4	39.84	3	92.19	2	43.92	5	136.11
6			50.42	9	40.81	2	91.23	3	43.46	6	134.69
7			50.87	7	36.31	10	87.18	8	42.45	7	129.63
8			51.20	6	37.61	5	88.81	6	34.54	8	123.35
9			48.96	10	36.76	9	85.72	9	did not advance
10			48.64	11	35.85	13	84.49	10	did not advance
11			47.88	12	36.13	12	84.01	11	did not advance
12			46.19	14	37.06	8	83.25	12	did not advance
13			47.12	13	34.95	14	82.07	13	did not advance
14			44.32	16	36.25	11	80.57	14	did not advance
15			46.03	15	34.36	15	80.39	15	did not advance
16			51.95	5	28.42	16	80.37	16	did not advance
17			42.00^[3]	17	did not advance
18			41.87	18	did not advance

References

• Web site: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960, Volume II . 2 January 2007 . The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad . 1960 . pdf . The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad . pp. 610–1 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110813072948/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v2.pdf . 13 August 2011 .
• Web site: Diving - women's springboard (Rome 1960) . 3 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 9 October 2002.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women . OlyMADMen . 17 May 2020.
2. There were 18 initial entries but two divers did not appear at the competition, therefore the remaining 16 divers, despite performing all the dives, were all automatically qualified for the next round.
3. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/DIV/womens-springboard.html Sports-Reference.com