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

Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

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	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Patricia McCormick (USA)	71.85	1	75.45	1	147.30
	Madeleine Moreau (FRA)	67.65	2	71.69	3	139.34
	Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen (USA)	54.09	8	73.48	2	127.57
4	22x20px Ninel Krutova (URS)	56.18	4	60.68	4	116.86
5	Charmain Welsh (GBR)	59.14	3	57.24	6	116.38
6	22x20px Lyubov Shigalova (URS)	54.18	7	59.65	5	113.83
7	Nicolle Pellissard (FRA)	55.69	5	56.29	7	111.98
8	Phyllis Long (GBR)	54.82	6	54.00	8	108.82
9	Carol Frick (USA)	52.97	9
10	22x20px Valentina Chumicheva (URS)	52.15	10
11	Dorothy Drew (GBR)	51.28	11
12	Hendrina van den Horn (NED)	49.44	12
13	Anna-Stina Wahlberg (SWE)	48.47	13
14	Helena Lanting-Keller (NED)	47.33	14
15	Masami Miyamoto (JPN)	46.88	15