Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

The women's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

* Preliminary round (3 December) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (4 December) – Divers performed four voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Pat McCormick | United States | 76.80 | 1 | 65.56 | 1 | 142.36 |
| | Jeanne Stunyo | United States | 71.04 | 4 | 54.85 | 2 | 125.89 |
| | Irene MacDonald | Canada | 73.25 | 2 | 48.15 | 5 | 121.40 |
| 4 | Barbara Gilders-Dudeck | United States | 71.47 | 3 | 49.29 | 4 | 120.76 |
| 5 | Valentina Chumicheva | Soviet Union | 65.42 | 5 | 53.08 | 3 | 118.50 |
| 6 | Ann Long | Great Britain | 63.23 | 7 | 44.38 | 7 | 107.61 |
| 7 | Nicolle Darrigrand | France | 60.48 | 11 | 45.84 | 6 | 106.32 |
| 8 | Kanoko Tsutani | Japan | 63.99 | 6 | 39.13 | 9 | 103.12 |
| 9 | Birte Christoffersen | Sweden | 62.81 | 8 | 39.38 | 8 | 102.19 |
| 10 | Ninel Krutova | Soviet Union | 61.54 | 10 | 38.80 | 10 | 100.34 |
| 11 | Zoya Bluvass | Soviet Union | 62.12 | 9 | 36.03 | 12 | 98.15 |
| 12 | Anna-Stina Wahlberg | Sweden | 60.30 | 12 | 36.99 | 11 | 97.29 |
| 13 | Barbara McAulay | Australia | 60.19 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Charmain Welsh | Great Britain | 59.45 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Rosalyn Barton | Australia | 58.50 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Hatsuko Hirose | Japan | 56.02 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Pat Howard | Australia | 53.89 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| DNF | Lilo Mund | Chile | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
