Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vicki Draves  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Zoe Ann Olsen  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Patsy Elsener  United States
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Diving at the
1948 Summer Olympics
3 m springboardmenwomen
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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]

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

Rank Diver Nation Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vicki Draves  United States 108.74
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen  United States 108.23
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

  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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