Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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]

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee,^[2] and appeared on the 1960 Official Report as 3-metre springboard diving and 10-metre high diving, respectively.^[3]

Men

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

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Ingrid Krämer United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope United States	Elizabeth Ferris Great Britain
10 metre platform	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
4	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1

Notes

↑ Diving at the 1960 Roma Summer Games. sports-reference.com
↑ IOC medals database. olympic.org
↑ The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, pp. 553-4.

References

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-22.
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 August 13, 2011. Retrieved 2007-01-02.

Events at the 1960 Summer Olympics (Rome)

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