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

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
Pat McCormick  United States Jeanne Stunyo  United States Irene MacDonald 23x15px Canada

Diving at the 1956 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 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
		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
	22x20px 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
14	Charmain Welsh (GBR)	59.45	14
15	Roslyn Barton (AUS)	58.50	15
16	Hatsuko Hirose (JPN)	56.02	16
17	Pat Howard (AUS)	53.89	17