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

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.[1]

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medallists Myers-Pope, Krämer, and Ferris
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ingrid Krämer  United Team of Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paula Jean Myers-Pope  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Elizabeth Ferris  Great Britain
← 1956
1964 →

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.[2]
  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

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Semi-final Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total Rank Points Rank Total
  Ingrid Krämer   United Team of Germany 56.23 1 42.37 1 98.60 1 57.21 1 155.81
  Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States 52.67 2 37.35 6 90.02 4 51.22 2 141.24
  Elizabeth Ferris   Great Britain 52.37 3 37.09 7 89.46 5 46.63 4 139.09
4 Patsy Willard   United States 50.64 8 38.14 4 88.78 7 49.04 3 137.82
5 Ninel Krutova   Soviet Union 52.35 4 39.84 3 92.19 2 43.92 5 136.11
6 Irene MacDonald   Canada 50.42 9 40.81 2 91.23 3 43.46 6 134.69
7 Ann Long   Great Britain 50.87 7 36.31 10 87.18 8 42.45 7 129.63
8 Dorothea du Pon   Netherlands 51.20 6 37.61 5 88.81 6 34.54 8 123.35
9 Nicolle Darrigrand   France 48.96 10 36.76 9 85.72 9 did not advance
10 Waltraud Oertel   United Team of Germany 48.64 11 35.85 13 84.49 10 did not advance
11 Yelena Kosolapova   Soviet Union 47.88 12 36.13 12 84.01 11 did not advance
12 Susan Knight   Australia 46.19 14 37.06 8 83.25 12 did not advance
13 Alexandra Morgenrood   Rhodesia 47.12 13 34.95 14 82.07 13 did not advance
14 Kumiko Watanabe   Japan 44.32 16 36.25 11 80.57 14 did not advance
15 Greta Lugthart   Netherlands 46.03 15 34.36 15 80.39 15 did not advance
16 Kanoko Tsutani   Japan 51.95 5 28.42 16 80.37 16 did not advance
17 Maria Teresa Adames   Mexico 42.00[3] 17 did not advance
18 Cristina Hardekopf   Argentina 41.87[3] 18 did not advance

Notes

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Sports-Reference.com Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Other sources indicate that Adames and Hardekopf did not start.

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