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

Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women

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	Gary Tobian  United States	Samuel Hall  United States	Juan Botella  Mexico
10 m platform	Bob Webster  United States	Gary Tobian  United States	Brian Phelps  Great Britain

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Ingrid Krämer  United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope  United States	Elizabeth Ferris  Great Britain
10 m 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
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

See also

• Diving at the 1959 Pan American Games

Notes

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.