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

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
Vicki Draves  United States Zoe Ann Olsen  United States Patsy Elsener  United States

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.

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:

1. 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.

2. 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
	Vicki Draves	United States	108.74
	Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen	United States	108.23
	Patsy Elsener	United States	101.30
4	Nicole Péllissard-Darrigrand	France	100.38
5	Gudrun Grömer	Austria	93.30
6	Edna Child	Great Britain	91.63
7	Mady Moreau	France	89.43
8	Kiki Heck	Netherlands	87.61
9	Birte Christoffersen	Denmark	87.12
10	Jeannette Aubert	France	86.96
11	Alma Staudinger	Austria	86.93
12	Cobie Floor	Netherlands	83.14
13	Esme Harris	Great Britain	74.10
14	Kay Cuthbert	Great Britain	72.40
15	Inger Nordbø	Norway	70.86
16	Ibone Belausteguigoitia	Mexico	58.18

Sources

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 (1951). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948" (pdf). Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948. pp. pp.637–9. Retrieved 31 December 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Herman de Wael (9 October 2002). "Diving - women's springboard (London 1948)". Retrieved 31 December 2006.