Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 1976 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 1976 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

* Preliminary round (19 July)

    Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (20 July)

    Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points |
| | Jennifer Chandler | United States | 463.32 | 1 | 506.19 |
| | Christa Köhler | East Germany | 441.90 | 6 | 469.41 |
| | Cynthia Potter | United States | 455.16 | 3 | 466.83 |
| 4 | Heidi Ramlow-Becker | East Germany | 445.08 | 5 | 462.15 |
| 5 | Karin Guthke | East Germany | 441.03 | 7 | 459.81 |
| 6 | Olga Dmitriyeva | Soviet Union | 447.33 | 4 | 432.24 |
| 7 | Irina Kalinina | Soviet Union | 434.28 | 8 | 417.99 |
| 8 | Barbara Nejman | United States | 455.49 | 2 | 365.07 |
| 9 | Beverly Boys | Canada | 420.57 | 9 | Did not advance |
| 10 | Ursula Sapp | West Germany | 417.63 | 10 | Did not advance |
| 11 | Ulrika Knape-Lindbergh | Sweden | 416.94 | 11 | Did not advance |
| 12 | Agneta Henriksson | Sweden | 404.19 | 12 | Did not advance |
| 13 | Helen Koppell | Great Britain | 396.96 | 13 | Did not advance |
| 14 | Teri York | Canada | 393.36 | 14 | Did not advance |
| 15 | Madeleine Barnett | Australia | 391.77 | 15 | Did not advance |
| 16 | Tatyana Podmaryova | Soviet Union | 387.39 | 16 | Did not advance |
| 17 | Eniko Kiefer | Canada | 383.13 | 17 | Did not advance |
| 18 | Rikiko Yamanaka | Japan | 381.96 | 18 | Did not advance |
| 19 | Renate Piotraschke | West Germany | 377.49 | 19 | Did not advance |
| 20 | Susanne Wetteskog | Sweden | 369.15 | 20 | Did not advance |
| 21 | Rebecca Ewert | New Zealand | 352.62 | 21 | Did not advance |
| 22 | Elizabeth Jack | Australia | 348.54 | 22 | Did not advance |
| 23 | Norma Baraldi | Mexico | 336.12 | 23 | Did not advance |
| 24 | Fusako Kakumaru | Japan | 330.54 | 24 | Did not advance |
| 25 | Carmen-Belen Nuñez | Spain | 318.66 | 25 | Did not advance |
| 26 | Aura Di Nasio | Venezuela | 293.04 | 26 | Did not advance |
| 27 | Peri Suzan Özkum | Turkey | 274.44 | 27 | Did not advance |
