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

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 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, four diving events were contested. The competitions were held from Friday July 30, 1948 to Friday August 6, 1948.-Medal summary:...

programme.

The competition was held on Saturday July 31, on Monday August 2, and on Tuesday August 3. It was split into two sets of dives:

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.
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	Points
1		108.74
2		108.23
3		101.30
4		100.38
5		93.30
6		91.63
7		89.43
8		87.61
9		87.12
10		86.96
11		86.93
12		83.14
13		74.10
14		72.40
15		70.86
16		58.18

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