Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform
# Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as 10-metre high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

* Preliminary round (29 August)

    Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (30 August)

    Divers performed two voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the preliminary and final rounds.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Ingrid Krämer | United Team of Germany | 56.30 | 1 | 34.98 | 2 | 91.28 |
| | Paula Jean Myers-Pope | United States | 54.70 | 2 | 35.24 | 1 | 89.94 |
| | Ninel Krutova | Soviet Union | 53.38 | 3 | 33.61 | 3 | 86.99 |
| 4 | Juno Stover-Irwin | United States | 51.90 | 6 | 31.69 | 4 | 83.59 |
| 5 | Raisa Gorokhovskaya | Soviet Union | 51.53 | 8 | 31.50 | 5 | 83.03 |
| 6 | Norma Thomas | Great Britain | 51.77 | 7 | 30.44 | 7 | 82.21 |
| 7 | Nicolle Péllissard-Darrigrand | France | 49.68 | 12 | 31.50 | 5 | 81.18 |
| 8 | Ann Long | Great Britain | 52.12 | 5 | 28.86 | 9 | 80.98 |
| 9 | Irene MacDonald | Canada | 51.31 | 9 | 29.18 | 8 | 80.49 |
| 10 | Kumiko Watanabe | Japan | 51.04 | 10 | 28.56 | 10 | 79.60 |
| 11 | Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi | Japan | 49.76 | 11 | 28.14 | 11 | 77.90 |
| 12 | Birte Christoffersen | Sweden | 53.03 | 4 | 24.40 | 12 | 77.43 |
| 13 | Maria Teresa Adames | Mexico | 49.54 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Hanna Laursen | Denmark | 48.89 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Gabriele Schöpe | United Team of Germany | 48.81 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Bende Velin | Denmark | 48.35 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Laura Conter | Italy | 45.55 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Susan Knight | Australia | 43.03 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
