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

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Women's 3 metre springboard; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
	Medallists Myers-Pope, Krämer, and Ferris
Medalists
	← 1956 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.

The competition was split into three phases:

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.^[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.
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	Preliminary		Semi-final				Final
Rank	Diver	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Ingrid Krämer (EUA)	56.23	1	42.37	1	98.60	1	57.21	1	155.81
	Paula Jean Myers-Pope (USA)	52.67	2	37.35	6	90.02	4	51.22	2	141.24
	Elizabeth Ferris (GBR)	52.37	3	37.09	7	89.46	5	46.63	4	139.09
4	Mary Willard (USA)	50.64	8	38.14	4	88.78	7	49.04	3	137.82
5	Ninel Krutova (URS)	52.35	4	39.84	3	92.19	2	43.92	5	136.11
6	Irene MacDonald (CAN)	50.42	9	40.81	2	91.23	3	43.46	6	134.69
7	Phyllis Long (GBR)	50.87	7	36.31	10	87.18	8	42.45	7	129.63
8	Dorothea du Pon (NED)	51.20	6	37.61	5	88.81	6	34.54	8	123.35

9	Nicolle Pellissard (FRA)	48.96	10	36.76	9	85.72	9
10	Waltraud Oertel (EUA)	48.64	11	35.85	13	84.49	10
11	Yelena Kosolapova (URS)	47.88	12	36.13	12	84.01	11
12	Susan Knight (AUS)	46.19	14	37.06	8	83.25	12
13	Alexandra Morgenrood (RHO)	47.12	13	34.95	14	82.07	13
14	Kumiko Watanabe (JPN)	44.32	16	36.25	11	80.57	14
15	Greta Lugthart (NED)	46.03	15	34.36	15	80.39	15
16	Kanoko Mabuchi (JPN)	51.95	5	28.42	16	80.37	16

Notes

^ 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.

References

The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960, Volume II" (pdf). The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. pp. pp. 610–1. Retrieved 2007-01-02. ^{[dead link]}
Herman de Wael (2002-10-09). "Diving - women's springboard (Rome 1960)". Retrieved 2007-01-03.

[1] 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.

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