Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 meter springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 15 to August 17, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It is an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three meters above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 30 divers each perform five dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs five dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The highest and lowest score from each judge are dropped. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by 0.6, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Country | Preliminary | Preliminary | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Country | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points |
| | Guo Jingjing | China | 373.90 | 1 | 398.55 | 1 | 415.35 |
| | Yulia Pakhalina | Russia | 358.15 | 2 | 383.50 | 2 | 398.60 |
| | Wu Minxia | China | 349.45 | 4 | 345.30 | 3 | 389.85 |
| 4 | Blythe Hartley | Canada | 350.60 | 3 | 324.60 | 10 | 374.60 |
| 5 | Tania Cagnotto | Italy | 332.90 | 6 | 332.40 | 5 | 349.20 |
| 6 | Anna Lindberg | Sweden | 294.75 | 12 | 324.70 | 9 | 342.15 |
| 7 | Sharleen Stratton | Australia | 288.00 | 13 | 325.90 | 8 | 331.00 |
| 8 | Nancilea Foster | United States | 300.15 | 11 | 338.90 | 4 | 316.70 |
| 9 | Christina Loukas | United States | 312.60 | 8 | 329.00 | 7 | 315.70 |
| 10 | Laura Sánchez | Mexico | 334.35 | 5 | 314.40 | 12 | 312.25 |
| 11 | Olena Fedorova | Ukraine | 323.75 | 7 | 329.10 | 6 | 298.40 |
| 12 | Nóra Barta | Hungary | 276.15 | 18 | 318.15 | 11 | 269.25 |
| 13 | Jennifer Abel | Canada | 300.75 | 10 | 296.10 | 13 | Did not advance |
| 14 | Chantelle Newbery | Australia | 284.85 | 15 | 294.45 | 14 | Did not advance |
| 15 | Ditte Kotzian | Germany | 282.80 | 16 | 292.25 | 15 | Did not advance |
| 16 | Jashia Luna | Mexico | 276.85 | 17 | 287.35 | 16 | Did not advance |
| 17 | Maria Marconi | Italy | 286.10 | 14 | 277.50 | 17 | Did not advance |
| 18 | Katja Dieckow | Germany | 302.70 | 9 | 263.00 | 18 | Did not advance |
| 19 | Svetlana Filippova | Russia | 274.20 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Diana Isabel Pineda | Colombia | 268.85 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Elizabeth Jimie | Malaysia | 253.50 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Leong Mun Yee | Malaysia | 253.50 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Sheila Mae Perez | Philippines | 251.15 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Villő Kormos | Hungary | 247.95 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Rebecca Gallantree | Great Britain | 232.75 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Hanna Pysmenska | Ukraine | 223.50 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Veronika Kratochwil | Austria | 218.75 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 28 | Jenna Dreyer | South Africa | 210.90 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 29 | Darya Romenskaya | Belarus | 207.00 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 30 | Jenifer Benitez | Spain | 194.05 | 30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
