The women's 3 metre springboard competition of the 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...

 events

Diving at the 2011 Pan American Games

Diving competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara will be held from October 26 to October 29, at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center...

 at the 2011 Pan American Games

2011 Pan American Games

The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, Puerto Vallarta, Lagos de Moreno and Tapalpa...

 was held on October 28 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center

Scotiabank Aquatics Center

The Scotiabank Aquatics Center is an aquatics center built for the 2011 Pan American Games in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. It was opened June 22, 2011, built at a cost of $USD31.7...

. The defending Pan American Games champion was Paola Espinosa

Paola Espinosa

Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is an athlete from Mexico. She competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, being her national team's flagbearer in the latter...

 of Mexico

Mexico

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. The winner of the competition (if not already qualified

Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

- Qualifying system:For individual diving the top twelve from the 2011 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2012 Diving World Cup will qualify a quota spot...

) will advance to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics

2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the "London 2012 Olympic Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012...

 to be held in London

London

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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.

The individual diving competitions all consist of two rounds. In the first, the divers each perform five dives. All divers advance to the advance to the finals. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of .5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
October 28, 2011	10:00	Preliminaries
October 28, 2011	21:00	Finals

Results

Green denotes finalists

Rank	Diver	Nationality	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank
	Laura Sanchez		340.00	2	374.60	1
	Cassidy Krug		345.60	1	372.65	2
	Paola Espinosa Paola Espinosa Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is an athlete from Mexico. She competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, being her national team's flagbearer in the latter...		303.50	4	356.20	3
4	Kassidy Cook		274.70	7	348.90	4
5	Jennifer Abel Jennifer Abel Jennifer Abel is a Canadian diver from Laval, Quebec. Abel became one of Canada's youngest ever divers when she had her debut Olympics at the age of 16 in 2008...		339.80	3	347.55	5
6	Juliana Veloso Juliana Veloso Juliana Rodrigues Veloso is a female diver from Brazil, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000. She claimed two gold medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.-References:*...		295.60	5	327.70	6
7	Émilie Heymans Émilie Heymans Émilie-Joane Heymans is a Canadian diver. Born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park , a suburb of Montreal, she started diving in 1993, at age 11...		288.50	6	325.90	7
8	Diana Pineda Diana Pineda Diana Isabel Pineda Zuletra is a female diver from Colombia, who competed in two Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000. She claimed three medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo....		256.25	8	275.80	8
9	Maria Betancourt		225.75	11	270.00	9
10	Luisa Jimenez		223.95	12	250.30	10
11	Carolina Murillo		242.30	9	239.65	11
12	Daylet Valdes		228.15	10	221.30	12
13	Paula Sotomayor		194.80	13	–	–
14	Bruna Mangueira		181.05	14	–	–
15	Yoslaidi Herrera		149.00	15	–	–
	Beannelys Velasquez			DNF