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

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medallists Myers-Pope, Krämer, and Ferris
Medalists
   United Team of Germany
   United States
   Great Britain
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
1st, gold medalist(s)  Ingrid Krämer (EUA) 56.23 1 42.37 1 98.60 1 57.21 1 155.81
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Paula Jean Myers-Pope (USA) 52.67 2 37.35 6 90.02 4 51.22 2 141.24
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  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 Did not advance
10  Waltraud Oertel (EUA) 48.64 11 35.85 13 84.49 10 Did not advance
11  Yelena Kosolapova (URS) 47.88 12 36.13 12 84.01 11 Did not advance
12  Susan Knight (AUS) 46.19 14 37.06 8 83.25 12 Did not advance
13  Alexandra Morgenrood (RHO) 47.12 13 34.95 14 82.07 13 Did not advance
14  Kumiko Watanabe (JPN) 44.32 16 36.25 11 80.57 14 Did not advance
15  Greta Lugthart (NED) 46.03 15 34.36 15 80.39 15 Did not advance
16  Kanoko Mabuchi (JPN) 51.95 5 28.42 16 80.37 16 Did not advance
17  Maria Teresa Adames (MEX) 42.00[2] 17 Did not advance
18  Cristina Hardekopf (ARG) 41.87[2] 18 Did not advance

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.
  2. 1 2 Sports-Reference.com. Other sources indicate that Adames and Hardekopf did not start.

References

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