Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 1952 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 1952 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

* Preliminary round (29 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (30 July) – Divers performed five voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Pat McCormick | United States | 71.85 | 1 | 75.45 | 1 | 147.30 |
| | Madeleine Moreau | France | 67.65 | 2 | 71.69 | 3 | 139.34 |
| | Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen | United States | 54.09 | 8 | 73.48 | 2 | 127.57 |
| 4 | Ninel Krutova | Soviet Union | 56.18 | 4 | 60.68 | 4 | 116.86 |
| 5 | Charmain Welsh | Great Britain | 59.14 | 3 | 57.24 | 6 | 116.38 |
| 6 | Lyubov Shigalova | Soviet Union | 54.18 | 7 | 59.65 | 5 | 113.83 |
| 7 | Nicolle Pellissard | France | 55.69 | 5 | 56.29 | 7 | 111.98 |
| 8 | Ann Long | Great Britain | 54.82 | 6 | 54.00 | 8 | 108.82 |
| 9 | Carol Frick | United States | 52.97 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 10 | Valentina Chumicheva | Soviet Union | 52.15 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 11 | Dorothy Drew | Great Britain | 51.28 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Hendrina van den Horn | Netherlands | 49.44 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 13 | Anna-Stina Wahlberg | Sweden | 48.47 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Helena Lanting-Keller | Netherlands | 47.33 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Masami Miyamoto | Japan | 46.88 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
