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:


 * 1) Preliminary round (21 July)
 * Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
 * 1) Final (22 July)
 * Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.