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:
- Preliminary round (19 July) Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
- Final (20 July) Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.
References
Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA