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

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
  Ingrid Krämer   Germany
  Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States
  Elizabeth Ferris   Great Britain
«1956 1964»
Diving at the
1960 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

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:

  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.[1]
  2. 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.
  3. 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
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

  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.

References