The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
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The competition was held on Saturday 31 July, on Monday 2 August, and on Tuesday 3 August. It was split into two sets of dives:
- Compulsory dives
- Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running straight header forward, backward header with pike, running straight isander-half gainer reverse dive, and backward spring and forward dive with pike.
- Facultative dives
- Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).
Sixteen divers from eight nations competed.
Results
edit| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
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Vicki Draves |  United States |
108.74 |
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Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen | United States |
108.23 |
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Patsy Elsener | United States |
101.30 |
| 4 | Nicole Péllissard-Darrigrand |  France |
100.38 |
| 5 | Gudrun Grömer |  Austria |
93.30 |
| 6 | Edna Child |  Great Britain |
91.63 |
| 7 | Mady Moreau | France |
89.43 |
| 8 | Kiki Heck |  Netherlands |
87.61 |
| 9 | Birte Christoffersen |  Denmark |
87.12 |
| 10 | Jeannette Aubert | France |
86.96 |
| 11 | Alma Staudinger | Austria |
86.93 |
| 12 | Cobie Floor | Netherlands |
83.14 |
| 13 | Esme Harris | Great Britain |
74.10 |
| 14 | Kay Cuthbert | Great Britain |
72.40 |
| 15 | Inger Nordbø |  Norway |
70.86 |
| 16 | Ibone Belausteguigoitia |  Mexico |
58.18 |
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
Sources
edit- Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 (1951). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948" (pdf). Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948. pp. pp.637–9. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) [dead link] - Herman de Wael (9 October 2002). "Diving - women's springboard (London 1948)". Retrieved 31 December 2006.