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
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
← 1936
1952 →

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

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