Diving at the 1980 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 1980 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:


 * 1) Preliminary round (20 July)
 * Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
 * 1) Final (21 July)
 * Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.