Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
Helen Meany  United States Dorothy Poynton  United States Georgia Coleman  United States
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Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women
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The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as fancy diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed three compulsory dives from the 3 metre board – running plain header forward, standing backward header, backward spring and forward dive – and three dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either board, for a total of six dives. The competition was held on Thursday 9 August 1928. Ten divers from four nations competed.^[1]

Since there were only ten entries for this event, instead of groups, a direct final was contested.

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
	Helen Meany	United States	6	78.62
	Dorothy Poynton-Hill	United States	13	75.62
	Georgia Coleman	United States	14	73.38
4	Ilse Meudtner	Germany	22	67.42
5	Margret Borgs	Germany	26	65.16
6	Lini Söhnchen	Germany	34	63.28
7	Truus Klapwijk	Netherlands	35	60.98
8	Alida van Leeuwen	Netherlands	35	59.82
9	Klara Bornett	Austria	40	56.90
10	Catharina Hesterman	Netherlands	50	48.20

• Netherlands Olympic Committee (1928). "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928 - Official Report" (PDF). Amsterdam J. H. de Bussy, Ltd. pp. p. 792. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2006.
• Herman de Wael (9 October 2002). "Diving - women's springboard (Amsterdam 1928)". Retrieved 30 December 2006.