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Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

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Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics

At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, five diving events were contested. The women's 3 metre springboard competition was added to the Olympic programme...

programme. The competition was held on Monday, August 22, Tuesday, August 23, and on Thursday, August 25, 1920.

Twenty-two divers from eleven nations competed.

First round

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		10	153.0
2		13	152.0
3		17	145.5
4		17	140.5
5		21	139.0
6		23	135.0
7		33	98.0

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		8	175.5
2		11	177.0
3		14	162.0
4		15	160.0
5		25	148.0
6		27	144.0
7		34	126.0
8		40	94.0

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		8	171.5
2		10	164.5
3		14	157.0
4		18	149.5
5		27	137.0
6		28	136.5
7		35	129.0

Final

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		7	183.5
2		8	183.0
3		16	175.0
4		19	173.0
5		23	167.5
6		27	159.0
7		34	148.5
8		37	153.0
9		40	142.0