The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as ''springboard diving'', was one of four

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events on the

Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics The diving competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City featured four events . It was one of three aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, and water polo. The events were men's and women's versions each of: 3m springboard ...

programme. It was the 11th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the

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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

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Diving at the 1968 Ciudad de Mexico Summer Games: Women's Springboard
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1968 in women's diving

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