Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medalists
Susanne Gossick   United States   Tamara Pogosheva   Soviet Union   Keala O'Sullivan   United States

Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (17 October)

   Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

2. Final (18 October)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

Tamara Pogosheva (URS) competing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Susanne Gossick (USA)	97.32	3	53.45	1	150.77
	Tamara Pogosheva (URS)	97.50	2	47.80	3	145.30
	Keala O'Sullivan (USA)	95.58	4	49.65	2	145.23
4	Micki King (USA)	98.17	1	39.21	8	137.38
5	Ingrid Gulbin (GDR)	90.56	6	45.26	4	135.82
6	Vera Baklanova (URS)	88.89	8	43.42	6	132.31
7	Beverly Boys (CAN)	86.86	10	43.45	5	130.31
8	Yelena Anokhina (URS)	90.35	7	38.82	10	129.17
9	Angelika Hilbert (FRG)	86.83	11	42.00	7	128.83
10	Milena Duchková (TCH)	91.57	5	36.28	11	127.85
11	Elzbieta Wierniuk (POL)	87.62	9	34.80	12	122.42
12	Kathleen Rowlatt (GBR)	83.12	12	39.04	9	122.16
13	Nancy Robertson (CAN)	82.21	13	Did not advance
14	Tarja Liljeström (FIN)	81.80	14	Did not advance
15	Robyn Bradshaw (AUS)	81.66	15	Did not advance
16	Elselina Kuiler (NED)	80.93	16	Did not advance
17	Bertha Baraldi (MEX)	80.47	17	Did not advance
18	Mariette Dommers (NED)	79.32	18	Did not advance
19	Ingeborg Pertmayr (AUT)	79.08	19	Did not advance
20	Boguszawa Pietkiewicz (POL)	76.45	20	Did not advance
21	Park Chung-Cha (KOR)	73.53	21	Did not advance
22	Martha Manzano (COL)	63.12	22	Did not advance
-	Keiko Osaki (JPN)	DNS	-	Did not advance

References

• Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1969). The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games (pdf) (in French and English). Mexico: The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad. pp. p. 738. Retrieved 2007-01-04.