Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Medalists
Pat McCormick   United States   Madeleine Moreau   France   Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen   United States

Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.

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

• Preliminary round (29 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (30 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
01 !	Patricia McCormick (USA)	71.85	1	75.45	1	147.30
02 !	Madeleine Moreau (FRA)	67.65	2	71.69	3	139.34
03 !	Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen (USA)	54.09	8	73.48	2	127.57
4	Ninel Krutova (URS)	56.18	4	60.68	4	116.86
5	Charmain Welsh (GBR)	59.14	3	57.24	6	116.38
6	Lyubov Shigalova (URS)	54.18	7	59.65	5	113.83
7	Nicolle Pellissard (FRA)	55.69	5	56.29	7	111.98
8	Phyllis Long (GBR)	54.82	6	54.00	8	108.82
9	Carol Frick (USA)	52.97	9	Did not advance
10	Valentina Chumicheva (URS)	52.15	10	Did not advance
11	Dorothy Drew (GBR)	51.28	11	Did not advance
12	Hendrina van den Horn (NED)	49.44	12	Did not advance
13	Anna-Stina Wahlberg (SWE)	48.47	13	Did not advance
14	Helena Lanting-Keller (NED)	47.33	14	Did not advance
15	Masami Miyamoto (JPN)	46.88	15	Did not advance

References

• The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 (1955). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952" (pdf). The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. pp. p. 598. Retrieved 2007-01-01. 
• Herman de Wael (2002-10-09). "Diving - women's springboard (Helsinki 1952)". Retrieved 2007-01-01.