Diving at the 1936 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 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1][2]

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
← 1932
1948 →

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

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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 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

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  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

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  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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