# Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as 3-metre springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.
The competition was split into three phases:
* Preliminary round (26 August)
    Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.
* Semi-final (27 August)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.
* Final (27 August)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Semi-final | Semi-final | Semi-final | Semi-final | Final | Final | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Ingrid Krämer | United Team of Germany | 56.23 | 1 | 42.37 | 1 | 98.60 | 1 | 57.21 | 1 | 155.81 |
| | Paula Jean Myers-Pope | United States | 52.67 | 2 | 37.35 | 6 | 90.02 | 4 | 51.22 | 2 | 141.24 |
| | Elizabeth Ferris | Great Britain | 52.37 | 3 | 37.09 | 7 | 89.46 | 5 | 46.63 | 4 | 139.09 |
| 4 | Patsy Willard | United States | 50.64 | 8 | 38.14 | 4 | 88.78 | 7 | 49.04 | 3 | 137.82 |
| 5 | Ninel Krutova | Soviet Union | 52.35 | 4 | 39.84 | 3 | 92.19 | 2 | 43.92 | 5 | 136.11 |
| 6 | Irene MacDonald | Canada | 50.42 | 9 | 40.81 | 2 | 91.23 | 3 | 43.46 | 6 | 134.69 |
| 7 | Ann Long | Great Britain | 50.87 | 7 | 36.31 | 10 | 87.18 | 8 | 42.45 | 7 | 129.63 |
| 8 | Dorothea du Pon | Netherlands | 51.20 | 6 | 37.61 | 5 | 88.81 | 6 | 34.54 | 8 | 123.35 |
| 9 | Nicolle Darrigrand | France | 48.96 | 10 | 36.76 | 9 | 85.72 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 10 | Waltraud Oertel | United Team of Germany | 48.64 | 11 | 35.85 | 13 | 84.49 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 11 | Yelena Kosolapova | Soviet Union | 47.88 | 12 | 36.13 | 12 | 84.01 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Susan Knight | Australia | 46.19 | 14 | 37.06 | 8 | 83.25 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 13 | Alexandra Morgenrood | Rhodesia | 47.12 | 13 | 34.95 | 14 | 82.07 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Kumiko Watanabe | Japan | 44.32 | 16 | 36.25 | 11 | 80.57 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Greta Lugthart | Netherlands | 46.03 | 15 | 34.36 | 15 | 80.39 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Kanoko Tsutani | Japan | 51.95 | 5 | 28.42 | 16 | 80.37 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Maria Teresa Adames | Mexico | 42.00 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Cristina Hardekopf | Argentina | 41.87 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |