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

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marjorie Gestring  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Katherine Rawls  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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][2]

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.

At the age of 13 years and 268 days, Marjorie Gestring won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, making her at the time the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal. She remains the second-youngest Olympic gold medalist, as of 2024.[a]

Results

Place Diver Nation Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marjorie Gestring  United States 89.27
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Katherine Rawls  United States 88.35
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 Magdalene Epply-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

Notes

  1. ^ In the 1900 men's coxed pair rowing, an unidentified boy aged 12 or less coxed the winning pair in the final; however, only semifinal cox Hermanus Brockmann is listed by the IOC.[3] Winners received silver medals at the 1900 games.[4]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Women's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Olympedia – Springboard, Women". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Hermanus Gerardus BROCKMANN — Olympic Rowing". International Olympic Committee. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  4. ^ Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.

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