Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard
# Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men'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 (21 July)

    Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (22 July)

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

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points |
| | Phil Boggs | United States | 621.51 | 1 | 619.05 |
| | Franco Cagnotto | Italy | 542.31 | 7 | 570.48 |
| | Aleksandr Kosenkov | Soviet Union | 557.52 | 5 | 567.24 |
| 4 | Falk Hoffmann | East Germany | 573.00 | 3 | 553.53 |
| 5 | Rob Cragg | United States | 582.99 | 2 | 548.19 |
| 6 | Greg Louganis | United States | 530.85 | 8 | 528.96 |
| 7 | Carlos Girón | Mexico | 547.14 | 6 | 523.59 |
| 8 | Klaus Dibiasi | Italy | 572.82 | 4 | 516.18 |
| 9 | Donald Wagstaff | Australia | 529.11 | 9 | Did not advance |
| 10 | Norbert Huda | West Germany | 518.88 | 10 | Did not advance |
| 11 | Boris Kozlov | Soviet Union | 516.42 | 11 | Did not advance |
| 12 | Vyacheslav Strakhov | Soviet Union | 510.63 | 12 | Did not advance |
| 13 | Frank Taubert | East Germany | 493.68 | 13 | Did not advance |
| 14 | Dieter Waskow | East Germany | 491.70 | 14 | Did not advance |
| 15 | Dieter Dörr | West Germany | 491.40 | 15 | Did not advance |
| 16 | Scott Cranham | Canada | 485.97 | 16 | Did not advance |
| 17 | Porfirio Becerril | Mexico | 484.41 | 17 | Did not advance |
| 18 | Chris Snode | Great Britain | 479.79 | 18 | Did not advance |
| 19 | Skip Phoenix | Canada | 458.10 | 19 | Did not advance |
| 20 | Trevor Simpson | Great Britain | 450.81 | 20 | Did not advance |
| 21 | Steve Foley | Australia | 447.15 | 21 | Did not advance |
| 22 | Claudio De Miro | Italy | 446.61 | 22 | Did not advance |
| 23 | Ken Armstrong | Canada | 442.47 | 23 | Did not advance |
| 24 | Alain Goosen | France | 441.36 | 24 | Did not advance |
| 25 | Ricardo Camacho | Spain | 408.94 | 25 | Did not advance |
| 26 | Sangwan Foengdee | Thailand | 317.61 | 26 | Did not advance |
| 27 | Sulaiman Qabazard | Kuwait | 216.93 | 27 | Did not advance |
| 28 | Ahmet Kizil | Turkey | 205.68 | 28 | Did not advance |
| - | Nelson Suarez | Ecuador | DNS | - | Did not advance |
| - | Jamal Al-Ghareeb | Kuwait | DNS | - | Did not advance |
