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

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	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Pat McCormick	United States	71.85	1	75.45	1	147.30
	Madeleine Moreau	France	67.65	2	71.69	3	139.34
	Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen	United States	54.09	8	73.48	2	127.57
4	Ninel Krutova	Soviet Union	56.18	4	60.68	4	116.86
5	Charmain Welsh	Great Britain	59.14	3	57.24	6	116.38
6	Lyubov Shigalova	Soviet Union	54.18	7	59.65	5	113.83
7	Nicolle Pellissard	France	55.69	5	56.29	7	111.98
8	Ann Long	Great Britain	54.82	6	54.00	8	108.82
9	Carol Frick	United States	52.97	9	did not advance
10	Valentina Chumicheva	Soviet Union	52.15	10	did not advance
11	Dorothy Drew	Great Britain	51.28	11	did not advance
12	Hendrina van den Horn	Netherlands	49.44	12	did not advance
13	Anna-Stina Wahlberg	Sweden	48.47	13	did not advance
14	Helena Lanting-Keller	Netherlands	47.33	14	did not advance
15	Masami Miyamoto	Japan	46.88	15	did not advance

Sources

• 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. Archived from the original (pdf) on 11 April 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Herman de Wael (9 October 2002). "Diving - women's springboard (Helsinki 1952)". Retrieved 1 January 2007.