Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Diving; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto
Dates	26 August 1960 through; 2 September 1960
No. of events	4
Competitors	75 from 25 nations

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, four diving events were contested.[1][2]

Gary Tobian (left) and Bob Webster in 1960

Left-right: Paula Jean Myers-Pope, Ingrid Krämer and Elizabeth Ferris at the 1960 Olympics

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee,[3] and appeared on the 1960 Official Report as 3-metre springboard diving and 10-metre high diving, respectively.[4]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Gary Tobian United States	Samuel Hall United States	Juan Botella Mexico
10 m platform	Bob Webster United States	Gary Tobian United States	Brian Phelps Great Britain

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Ingrid Krämer United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope United States	Elizabeth Ferris Great Britain
10 m platform	Ingrid Krämer United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope United States	Ninel Krutova Soviet Union

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	4	0	6
2	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	0	0	2
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	2	2
4	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
4	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations

Argentina (1)
Australia (4)
Austria (2)
Brazil (1)
Canada (2)
Colombia (1)
Czechoslovakia (1)
Denmark (2)
Egypt (3)
Finland (1)
France (4)
Great Britain (7)
Hungary (2)

Notes

Diving at the 1960 Roma Summer Games. sports-reference.com
"Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
IOC medals database. olympic.org
The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, pp. 553-4.

References

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 November 2006.
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. Archived from the original (pdf) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2007.

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[1] Diving at the 1960 Roma Summer Games. sports-reference.com

[2] "Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

[database-3] IOC medals database. olympic.org

[OR-4] The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, pp. 553-4.