Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
    Germany
    United States
    Soviet Union
«1956 1964»
Diving at the
1960 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as 10-metre high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (29 August)
    Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (30 August)
    Divers performed two voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the preliminary and final rounds.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
 Ingrid Krämer (EUA) 56.30 1 34.98 2 91.28
 Paula Jean Myers-Pope (USA) 54.70 2 35.24 1 89.94
 Ninel Krutova (URS) 53.38 3 33.61 3 86.99
4  Juno Stover-Irwin (USA) 51.90 6 31.69 4 83.59
5  Raisa Gorokhovskaya (URS) 51.53 8 31.50 5 83.03
6  Norma Thomas (GBR) 51.77 7 30.44 7 82.21
7  Nicolle Darrigrand-Pellissard (FRA) 49.68 12 31.50 5 81.18
8  Phyllis Long (GBR) 52.12 5 28.86 9 80.98
9  Irene MacDonald (CAN) 51.31 9 29.18 8 80.49
10  Kumiko Watanabe (JPN) 51.04 10 28.56 10 79.60
11  Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi (JPN) 49.76 11 28.14 11 77.90
12  Birte Christoffersen-Hanson (SWE) 53.03 4 24.40 12 77.43
13  Maria Teresa Adames (MEX) 49.54 13
14  Hanna Laursen (DEN) 48.89 14
15  Gabriele Schöpe (EUA) 48.81 15
16  Bende Velin (DEN) 48.35 16
17  Laura Conter (ITA) 45.55 17
18  Susan Knight (AUS) 43.03 18

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