Diving at the 1976 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 1976 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:


 * 1) Preliminary round (19 July)
 * Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
 * 1) Final (20 July)
 * Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.