| Event: | Women's 3 metre springboard |
| Games: | 1976 Summer |
| Gold: | Jennifer Chandler |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Christa Köhler |
| Silvernoc: | GDR |
| Bronze: | Cynthia Potter |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1972 |
| Next: | 1980 |
The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
The competition was split into two phases:
Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | ||||
| 463.32 | 1 | 506.19 | ||||
| 441.90 | 6 | 469.41 | ||||
| 455.16 | 3 | 466.83 | ||||
| 4 | 445.08 | 5 | 462.15 | |||
| 5 | 441.03 | 7 | 459.81 | |||
| 6 | 447.33 | 4 | 432.24 | |||
| 7 | 434.28 | 8 | 417.99 | |||
| 8 | 455.49 | 2 | 365.07 | |||
| 9 | 420.57 | 9 | Did not advance | |||
| 10 | 417.63 | 10 | Did not advance | |||
| 11 | 416.94 | 11 | Did not advance | |||
| 12 | 404.19 | 12 | Did not advance | |||
| 13 | 396.96 | 13 | Did not advance | |||
| 14 | 393.36 | 14 | Did not advance | |||
| 15 | 391.77 | 15 | Did not advance | |||
| 16 | 387.39 | 16 | Did not advance | |||
| 17 | 383.13 | 17 | Did not advance | |||
| 18 | 381.96 | 18 | Did not advance | |||
| 19 | 377.49 | 19 | Did not advance | |||
| 20 | 369.15 | 20 | Did not advance | |||
| 21 | 352.62 | 21 | Did not advance | |||
| 22 | 348.54 | 22 | Did not advance | |||
| 23 | 336.12 | 23 | Did not advance | |||
| 24 | 330.54 | 24 | Did not advance | |||
| 25 | 318.66 | 25 | Did not advance | |||
| 26 | 293.04 | 26 | Did not advance | |||
| 27 | 274.44 | 27 | Did not advance | |||