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
Ingrid Krämer  United Team of Germany Paula Jean Myers-Pope  United States Elizabeth Ferris  Great Britain

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

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

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. Sports-Reference.com Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Other sources indicate that Adames and Hardekopf did not start.

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 13 August 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2007.
• Herman de Wael (9 October 2002). "Diving - women's springboard (Rome 1960)". Retrieved 3 January 2007.