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

Women's 3 metre springboard; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics 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
	Pat McCormick (USA)	76.80	1	65.56	1	142.36
	Jeanne Stunyo (USA)	71.04	4	54.85	2	125.89
	Irene MacDonald (CAN)	73.25	2	48.15	5	121.40
4	Barbara Gilders-Dudeck (USA)	71.47	3	49.29	4	120.76
5	Valentina Chumicheva (URS)	65.42	5	53.08	3	118.50
6	Phyllis Long (GBR)	63.23	7	44.38	7	107.61
7	Nicolle Pellissard (FRA)	60.48	11	45.84	6	106.32
8	Kanoko Tsutani (JPN)	63.99	6	39.13	9	103.12
9	Birte Christoffersen-Hanson (DEN)	62.81	8	39.38	8	102.19
10	Ninel Krutova (URS)	61.54	10	38.80	10	100.34
11	Zoya Bluvass (URS)	62.12	9	36.03	12	98.15
12	Anna-Stina Wahlberg (SWE)	60.30	12	36.99	11	97.29
13	Barbara McAulay (AUS)	60.19	13	Did not advance
14	Charmain Welsh (GBR)	59.45	14	Did not advance
15	Roslyn Barton (AUS)	58.50	15	Did not advance
16	Hatsuko Hirose (JPN)	56.02	16	Did not advance
17	Pat Howard (AUS)	53.89	17	Did not advance

The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 (1958). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956. pp. p. 620. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
Herman de Wael (2002-10-09). "Diving - women's springboard (Melbourne 1956)". Retrieved 2007-01-02.

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