Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Left-right: Knape, King, Janicke
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Micki King  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ulrika Knape  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marina Janicke  East Germany
← 1968
1976 →

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (27 August)
    Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (28 August)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Micki King   United States 289.14 3 160.89 1 450.03
  Ulrika Knape   Sweden 292.59 1 141.60 6 434.19
  Marina Janicke   East Germany 273.48 8 157.44 2 430.92
4 Janet Ely   United States 269.91 9 151.08 3 420.99
5 Beverly Boys   Canada 274.35 7 144.54 5 418.89
6 Agneta Henriksson   Sweden 290.79 2 126.69 9 417.48
7 Cynthia Potter   United States 264.90 10 148.68 4 413.58
8 Elzbieta Wierniuk   Poland 277.32 6 131.04 8 408.36
9 Heidi Becker-Ramlow   East Germany 281.58 4 124.20 10 405.78
10 Milena Duchková   Czechoslovakia 263.55 11 137.28 7 400.83
11 Christa Köhler   East Germany 278.88 5 115.32 12 394.20
12 Alison Drake   Great Britain 262.32 12 115.86 11 378.18
13 Michaela Herweck   West Germany 261.78 13 did not advance
14 Nataliya Kuznetsova-Lobanova   Soviet Union 258.45 14 did not advance
15 Bertha Baraldi   Mexico 252.66 15 did not advance
16 Tetiana Shtyreva-Volynkina   Soviet Union 252.42 16 did not advance
17 Tamara Fedosova-Pogosheva   Soviet Union 252.09 17 did not advance
18 Regina Krajnow   Poland 248.91 18 did not advance
19 Teri York   Canada 247.14 19 did not advance
20 Elizabeth Carruthers   Canada 243.84 20 did not advance
21 Sorana Prelipceanu   Romania 242.61 21 did not advance
22 Helen Koppell   Great Britain 242.22 22 did not advance
23 Mariette Dommers   Netherlands 239.40 23 did not advance
24 Laura Kivelä   Finland 236.25 24 did not advance
24 Taeko Kubo   Japan 236.25 24 did not advance
26 Glenise-Ann Jones   Australia 232.44 26 did not advance
27 Melania Decuseară   Romania 232.02 27 did not advance
28 Christiane Wiles   France 229.56 28 did not advance
29 Betsy Sullivan   Jamaica 210.39 29 did not advance
30 Mirnawati Hardjolukito   Indonesia 188.94 30 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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