Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Left-right: Köhler, Chandler, Potter
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jennifer Chandler  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Christa Köhler  East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cynthia Potter  United States
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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 1976 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (19 July)
    Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (20 July)
    Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jennifer Chandler  United States 463.32 1 506.19
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Christa Köhler  East Germany 441.90 6 469.41
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cynthia Potter  United States 455.16 3 466.83
4 Heidi Ramlow-Becker  East Germany 445.08 5 462.15
5 Karin Guthke  East Germany 441.03 7 459.81
6 Olga Dmitriyeva  Soviet Union 447.33 4 432.24
7 Irina Kalinina  Soviet Union 434.28 8 417.99
8 Barbara Nejman  United States 455.49 2 365.07
9 Beverly Boys  Canada 420.57 9 Did not advance
10 Ursula Sapp  West Germany 417.63 10 Did not advance
11 Ulrika Knape-Lindbergh  Sweden 416.94 11 Did not advance
12 Agneta Henriksson  Sweden 404.19 12 Did not advance
13 Helen Koppell  Great Britain 396.96 13 Did not advance
14 Teri York  Canada 393.36 14 Did not advance
15 Madeleine Barnett  Australia 391.77 15 Did not advance
16 Tatyana Podmaryova  Soviet Union 387.39 16 Did not advance
17 Eniko Kiefer  Canada 383.13 17 Did not advance
18 Rikiko Yamanaka  Japan 381.96 18 Did not advance
19 Renate Piotraschke  West Germany 377.49 19 Did not advance
20 Susanne Wetteskog  Sweden 369.15 20 Did not advance
21 Rebecca Ewert  New Zealand 352.62 21 Did not advance
22 Elizabeth Jack  Australia 348.54 22 Did not advance
23 Norma Baraldi  Mexico 336.12 23 Did not advance
24 Fusako Kakumaru  Japan 330.54 24 Did not advance
25 Carmen-Belen Nuñez  Spain 318.66 25 Did not advance
26 Aura Di Nasio  Venezuela 293.04 26 Did not advance
27 Peri Suzan Özkum  Turkey 274.44 27 Did not advance

References

  1. ^ "Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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