Diving at the 1972 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 1972 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:


 * 1) Preliminary round (29 August)
 * Divers performed eight dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
 * 1) Final (30 August)
 * Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.