The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as fancy diving, was one of four diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

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Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, four diving events were contested. The men's plain high diving event was dropped from the Olympic program...

programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed three compulsory dives from the 3 metre board – running plain header forward, standing backward header, backward spring and forward dive – and three dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either board, for a total of six dives. The competition was held on Thursday August 9, 1928.

Ten divers from four nations competed.

Results

Since there were only ten entries for this event, instead of groups, a direct final was contested.

Final

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		6	78.62
2		13	75.62
3		14	73.38
4		22	67.42
5		26	65.16
6		34	63.28
7		35	60.98
8		35	59.82
9		40	56.90
10		50	48.20