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

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

Diving

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Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, four diving events were contested.-Medal summary:The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, and appeared on the 1956 Official Report as springboard diving and high diving,...

programme.

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	Preliminary		Final
Rank	Diver	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
		76.80	1	65.56	1	142.36
		71.04	4	54.85	2	125.89
		73.25	2	48.15	5	121.40
4		71.47	3	49.29	4	120.76
5		65.42	5	53.08	3	118.50
6		63.23	7	44.38	7	107.61
7		60.48	11	45.84	6	106.32
8		63.99	6	39.13	9	103.12
9		62.81	8	39.38	8	102.19
10		61.54	10	38.80	10	100.34
11		62.12	9	36.03	12	98.15
12		60.30	12	36.99	11	97.29

13		60.19	13
14		59.45	14
15		58.50	15
16		56.02	16
17		53.89	17

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