Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Medalists
Marjorie Gestring  United States Katherine Rawls  United States Dorothy Poynton-Hill  United States
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Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition, held on Wednesday 12 August, was split into two sets of dives held on the same day:

1. Compulsory dives

   Divers performed three pre-chosen dives – a running straight somersault forward, standing header backward with pike, and running straight isander-half gainer.

2. Facultative dives

   Divers performed three dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Sixteen divers from nine nations competed.

Results[]

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
	Marjorie Gestring	United States	89.27
	Katherine Rawls	United States	88.35
	Dorothy Poynton-Hill	United States	82.36
4	Gerda Daumerlang	Germany	78.27
5	Olga Jensch-Jordan	Germany	77.98
6	Masayo Osawa	Japan	73.94
7	Suse Heinz	Germany	71.49
8	Fusako Kono	Japan	70.27
9	Betty Slade	Great Britain	69.95
10	Lynda Adams	Canada	67.44
11	Inger Nordbø	Norway	65.94
12	Alma Staudinger	Austria	65.76
13	Katinka Larsen	Great Britain	64.00
14	Annie Villiger	Switzerland	62.38
15	Thelma Boughner	Canada	60.04
16	Cécile Lesprit-Poirier	France	58.86

References[]

Sources[]

• Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V. (1937). "The XIth Olympic Games, Berlin 1936 - Official Report, Volume II" (PDF). Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin, S.W. 68. pp. pp.338–41. Archived from the original (pdf) on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
• Herman de Wael (9 October 2002). "Diving - women's springboard (Berlin 1936)". Retrieved 31 December 2006.