The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. It was the 11th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Competition format The competition was split into two phases:
Preliminary round (17 October) Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final. Final (18 October) Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.
Schedule All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)
DateTimeRoundThursday, 17 October 196810:00-17:00PreliminaryFridau, 18 October 196817:00Final
Results
Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final Points Rank Dive 1 Dive 2 Dive 3 Points Rank Total 97.32 3 16.79 17.68 18.98 53.45 1 150.77 97.50 2 10.80 16.72 20.28 47.80 3 145.30 95.58 4 14.85 17.42 17.38 49.65 2 145.23 4 98.17 1 16.33 15.08 7.80 39.21 8 137.38 5 90.56 6 14.74 17.52 13.00 45.26 4 135.82 6 88.89 8 14.96 14.30 14.16 43.42 6 132.31 7 86.86 10 14.07 15.08 14.30 43.45 5 130.31 8 90.35 7 12.98 12.24 13.60 38.82 10 129.17 9 86.83 11 14.72 14.52 12.76 42.00 7 128.83 10 91.57 5 16.50 7.68 12.10 36.28 11 127.85 11 87.62 9 13.20 9.12 12.48 34.80 12 122.42 12 83.12 12 14.74 9.90 14.40 39.04 9 122.16 13 82.21 13 did not advance 14 81.80 14 did not advance 15 81.66 15 did not advance 16 80.93 16 did not advance 17 80.47 17 did not advance 18 79.32 18 did not advance 19 79.08 19 did not advance 20 76.45 20 did not advance 21 Park Jeong-ja 73.53 21 did not advance 22 63.12 22 did not advance - - did not advance
References
Sources
Diving at the 1968 Ciudad de Mexico Summer Games: Women's Springboard. sports-reference.com