Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 1948 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 1948 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was held on Saturday 31 July, on Monday 2 August, and on Tuesday 3 August. It was split into two sets of dives:

* Compulsory dives

    Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running straight header forward, backward header with pike, running straight isander-half gainer reverse dive, and backward spring and forward dive with pike.
* Facultative dives

    Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Sixteen divers from eight nations competed.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Vicki Draves | United States | 108.74 |
| | Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen | United States | 108.23 |
| | Patsy Elsener | United States | 101.30 |
| 4 | Nicole Péllissard-Darrigrand | France | 100.38 |
| 5 | Gudrun Grömer | Austria | 93.30 |
| 6 | Edna Child | Great Britain | 91.63 |
| 7 | Mady Moreau | France | 89.43 |
| 8 | Kiki Heck | Netherlands | 87.61 |
| 9 | Birte Christoffersen | Denmark | 87.12 |
| 10 | Jeannette Aubert | France | 86.96 |
| 11 | Alma Staudinger | Austria | 86.93 |
| 12 | Cobie Floor | Netherlands | 83.14 |
| 13 | Esme Harris | Great Britain | 74.10 |
| 14 | Kay Cuthbert | Great Britain | 72.40 |
| 15 | Inger Nordbø | Norway | 70.86 |
| 16 | Ibone Belausteguigoitia | Mexico | 58.18 |
