| Event: | Women's 3 metre springboard |
| Games: | 1972 Summer |
| Gold: | Micki King |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Ulrika Knape |
| Silvernoc: | SWE |
| Bronze: | Marina Janicke |
| Bronzenoc: | GDR |
| Prev: | 1968 |
| Next: | 1976 |
The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
The competition was split into two phases:
Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | ||||
| 289.14 | 3 | 160.89 | 1 | 450.03 | ||||
| 292.59 | 1 | 141.60 | 6 | 434.19 | ||||
| 273.48 | 8 | 157.44 | 2 | 430.92 | ||||
| 4 | 269.91 | 9 | 151.08 | 3 | 420.99 | |||
| 5 | 274.35 | 7 | 144.54 | 5 | 418.89 | |||
| 6 | 290.79 | 2 | 126.69 | 9 | 417.48 | |||
| 7 | 264.90 | 10 | 148.68 | 4 | 413.58 | |||
| 8 | 277.32 | 6 | 131.04 | 8 | 408.36 | |||
| 9 | 281.58 | 4 | 124.20 | 10 | 405.78 | |||
| 10 | 263.55 | 11 | 137.28 | 7 | 400.83 | |||
| 11 | 278.88 | 5 | 115.32 | 12 | 394.20 | |||
| 12 | 262.32 | 12 | 115.86 | 11 | 378.18 | |||
| 13 | 261.78 | 13 | did not advance | |||||
| 14 | 258.45 | 14 | did not advance | |||||
| 15 | 252.66 | 15 | did not advance | |||||
| 16 | 252.42 | 16 | did not advance | |||||
| 17 | 252.09 | 17 | did not advance | |||||
| 18 | 248.91 | 18 | did not advance | |||||
| 19 | 247.14 | 19 | did not advance | |||||
| 20 | 243.84 | 20 | did not advance | |||||
| 21 | 242.61 | 21 | did not advance | |||||
| 22 | 242.22 | 22 | did not advance | |||||
| 23 | 239.40 | 23 | did not advance | |||||
| 24 | 236.25 | 24 | did not advance | |||||
| 24 | 236.25 | 24 | did not advance | |||||
| 26 | 232.44 | 26 | did not advance | |||||
| 27 | 232.02 | 27 | did not advance | |||||
| 28 | 229.56 | 28 | did not advance | |||||
| 29 | 210.39 | 29 | did not advance | |||||
| 30 | 188.94 | 30 | did not advance | |||||