Diving at the 1972 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 1972 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:


 * 1) Preliminary round (27 August)
 * Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
 * 1) Final (28 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.