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 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

References

Sources Diving at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Women's Springboard. sports-reference.com