Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeanne Stunyo  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Irene MacDonald  Canada
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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 1956 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

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

  • Preliminary round (3 December) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (4 December) – Divers performed four voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States 76.80 1 65.56 1 142.36
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeanne Stunyo  United States 71.04 4 54.85 2 125.89
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Irene MacDonald  Canada 73.25 2 48.15 5 121.40
4 Barbara Gilders-Dudeck  United States 71.47 3 49.29 4 120.76
5 Valentina Chumicheva  Soviet Union 65.42 5 53.08 3 118.50
6 Ann Long  Great Britain 63.23 7 44.38 7 107.61
7 Nicolle Darrigrand  France 60.48 11 45.84 6 106.32
8 Kanoko Tsutani  Japan 63.99 6 39.13 9 103.12
9 Birte Christoffersen  Sweden 62.81 8 39.38 8 102.19
10 Ninel Krutova  Soviet Union 61.54 10 38.80 10 100.34
11 Zoya Bluvass  Soviet Union 62.12 9 36.03 12 98.15
12 Anna-Stina Wahlberg  Sweden 60.30 12 36.99 11 97.29
13 Barbara McAulay  Australia 60.19 13 did not advance
14 Charmain Welsh  Great Britain 59.45 14 did not advance
15 Rosalyn Barton  Australia 58.50 15 did not advance
16 Hatsuko Hirose  Japan 56.02 16 did not advance
17 Pat Howard  Australia 53.89 17 did not advance
DNF Lilo Mund  Chile did not advance

References

  1. ^ "Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

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