Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Diving at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto
Dates	26 August 1960 (1960-08-26) through 2 September 1960 (1960-09-02)
No. of events	4
Competitors	75 from 25 nations
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Gary Tobian (left) and Bob Webster in 1960

Left-right: Paula Jean Myers-Pope, Ingrid Krämer and Elizabeth Ferris at the 1960 Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, four diving events were contested. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, ^[3] and appeared on the 1960 Official Report as 3-metre springboard diving and 10-metre high diving, respectively. ^[4]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Gary Tobian   United States	Samuel Hall   United States	Juan Botella   Mexico
10 m platform details	Bob Webster   United States	Gary Tobian   United States	Brian Phelps   Great Britain

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Ingrid Krämer   United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States	Elizabeth Ferris   Great Britain
10 m platform details	Ingrid Krämer   United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States	Ninel Krutova   Soviet Union

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	2	4	0	6
2	United Team of Germany  (EUA)	2	0	0	2
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	2	2
4	Mexico  (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations

•   Argentina  (1)
•   Australia  (4)
•   Austria  (2)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   Canada  (2)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Czechoslovakia  (1)
•   Denmark  (2)
•   Egypt  (3)
•   Finland  (1)
•   France  (4)
•   United Team of Germany  (7)
•   Great Britain  (7)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   Italy  (5)
•   Japan  (5)
•   South Korea  (1)
•   Mexico  (4)
•   Netherlands  (2)
•   Poland  (1)
•   Rhodesia  (1)
•   Soviet Union  (7)
•   Sweden  (4)
•   Switzerland  (1)
•   United States  (5)

See also

• Diving at the 1959 Pan American Games

Notes

1. Diving at the 1960 Roma Summer Games. sports-reference.com
2. "Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
3. IOC medals database. olympic.org
4. The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, pp. 553-4.

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 22 November 2006.
• The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960, Volume II" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. Archived from the original (pdf) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2007.