Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Madeleine Moreau  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen  United States
← 1948
1956 →

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

  • Preliminary round (29 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (30 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Pat McCormick   United States 71.85 1 75.45 1 147.30
  Madeleine Moreau   France 67.65 2 71.69 3 139.34
  Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen   United States 54.09 8 73.48 2 127.57
4 Ninel Krutova   Soviet Union 56.18 4 60.68 4 116.86
5 Charmain Welsh   Great Britain 59.14 3 57.24 6 116.38
6 Lyubov Shigalova   Soviet Union 54.18 7 59.65 5 113.83
7 Nicolle Pellissard   France 55.69 5 56.29 7 111.98
8 Ann Long   Great Britain 54.82 6 54.00 8 108.82
9 Carol Frick   United States 52.97 9 did not advance
10 Valentina Chumicheva   Soviet Union 52.15 10 did not advance
11 Dorothy Drew   Great Britain 51.28 11 did not advance
12 Hendrina van den Horn   Netherlands 49.44 12 did not advance
13 Anna-Stina Wahlberg   Sweden 48.47 13 did not advance
14 Helena Lanting-Keller   Netherlands 47.33 14 did not advance
15 Masami Miyamoto   Japan 46.88 15 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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