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
Ingrid Krämer   Germany   Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States   Elizabeth Ferris   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
	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

• 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. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 13, 2011. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
• Herman de Wael (2002-10-09). "Diving - women's springboard (Rome 1960)". Retrieved 2007-01-03.