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Platform, Women

Date29 – 30 August 1960
StatusOlympic
LocationStadio Olimpico del Nuoto, Roma
Participants18 from 12 countries
Format10 metre platform.

Denmark’s Stefanie Clausen won this event in 1920, but since then the gold medal had always gone to a United States’ diver. In 1952-56 it had been Pat McCormick, who won the diving double-double, but she was retired. American Paula Jean Myers-Pope had won silver on platform in 1952 and bronze in 1956 and was back, expecting to contend for gold. Germany’s Ingrid Krämer was little known before 1960 but had already won the springboard gold medal in Roma. Krämer also won this event, quite easily in fact, making this the fourth consecutive Olympics at which the same woman won both the springboard and platform diving events, after McCormick in 1952-56 and Vicki Draves in 1948.

Myers-Pope won silver, finishing her Olympic career with four medals, but never managing to win a gold. The bronze went to Ninel Krutova in her third Olympic appearance, the first ever Olympic medal for a Soviet diver. Krämer would return in 1964 to repeat her springboard gold medal, but dropped back to a silver on the Tokyo platform.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Ingrid KrämerGER91.28Gold
2Paula Jean PopeUSA88.94Silver
3Ninel KrutovaURS86.99Bronze
4Juno IrwinUSA83.59
5Raisa GorokhovskayaURS83.03
6Norma ThomasGBR82.21
7Nicole Péllissard-DarrigrandFRA81.18
8Ann LongGBR80.98
9Irene MacDonaldCAN80.49
10Kumiko WatanabeJPN79.60
11Kanoko MabuchiJPN77.90
12Birte HansonSWE77.43
13María Teresa AdamesMEX49.54
14Hanna LaursenDEN48.89
15Gabriele SchöpeGER48.81
16Bende VelinDEN48.35
17Laura ConterITA45.55
18Susan KnightAUS43.03

Qualifying (29 August 1960 — 08:30)

Four dives. Top 12 advanced to the final round.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Ingrid KrämerGER56.30Q
2Paula Jean PopeUSA54.70Q
3Ninel KrutovaURS53.38Q
4Birte HansonSWE53.03Q
5Ann LongGBR52.12Q
6Juno IrwinUSA51.90Q
7Norma ThomasGBR51.77Q
8Raisa GorokhovskayaURS51.53Q
9Irene MacDonaldCAN51.31Q
10Kumiko WatanabeJPN51.04Q
11Kanoko MabuchiJPN49.76Q
12Nicole Péllissard-DarrigrandFRA49.68Q
13María Teresa AdamesMEX49.54
14Hanna LaursenDEN48.89
15Gabriele SchöpeGER48.81
16Bende VelinDEN48.35
17Laura ConterITA45.55
18Susan KnightAUS43.03

Final (30 August 1960 — 15:00)

Three dives. Score added to qualifying round score.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPointsFP
1Ingrid KrämerGER91.2834.98
2Paula Jean PopeUSA88.9434.24
3Ninel KrutovaURS86.9933.61
4Juno IrwinUSA83.5931.69
5Raisa GorokhovskayaURS83.0331.50
6Norma ThomasGBR82.2130.44
7Nicole Péllissard-DarrigrandFRA81.1831.50
8Ann LongGBR80.9828.86
9Irene MacDonaldCAN80.4929.18
10Kumiko WatanabeJPN79.6028.56
11Kanoko MabuchiJPN77.9028.14
12Birte HansonSWE77.4324.40