Diving at the 1948 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 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
Vicki Draves  United States
Zoe Ann Olsen  United States
Patsy Elsener  United States

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:

  1. 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.
  2. Facultative dives
    Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Sixteen divers from eight nations competed.

Results

RankDiverNationPoints
Vicki Draves United States108.74
Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen United States108.23
Patsy Elsener United States101.30
4Nicole Péllissard-Darrigrand France100.38
5Gudrun Grömer Austria93.30
6Edna Child Great Britain91.63
7Mady Moreau France89.43
8Kiki Heck Netherlands87.61
9Birte Christoffersen Denmark87.12
10Jeannette Aubert France86.96
11Alma Staudinger Austria86.93
12Cobie Floor Netherlands83.14
13Esme Harris Great Britain74.10
14Kay Cuthbert Great Britain72.40
15Inger Nordbø Norway70.86
16Ibone Belausteguigoitia Mexico58.18

References

  1. 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.

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