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

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Micki King | United States | 289.14 | 3 | 160.89 | 1 | 450.03 |
| | Ulrika Knape | Sweden | 292.59 | 1 | 141.60 | 6 | 434.19 |
| | Marina Janicke | East Germany | 273.48 | 8 | 157.44 | 2 | 430.92 |
| 4 | Janet Ely | United States | 269.91 | 9 | 151.08 | 3 | 420.99 |
| 5 | Beverly Boys | Canada | 274.35 | 7 | 144.54 | 5 | 418.89 |
| 6 | Agneta Henriksson | Sweden | 290.79 | 2 | 126.69 | 9 | 417.48 |
| 7 | Cynthia Potter | United States | 264.90 | 10 | 148.68 | 4 | 413.58 |
| 8 | Elzbieta Wierniuk | Poland | 277.32 | 6 | 131.04 | 8 | 408.36 |
| 9 | Heidi Becker-Ramlow | East Germany | 281.58 | 4 | 124.20 | 10 | 405.78 |
| 10 | Milena Duchková | Czechoslovakia | 263.55 | 11 | 137.28 | 7 | 400.83 |
| 11 | Christa Köhler | East Germany | 278.88 | 5 | 115.32 | 12 | 394.20 |
| 12 | Alison Drake | Great Britain | 262.32 | 12 | 115.86 | 11 | 378.18 |
| 13 | Michaela Herweck | West Germany | 261.78 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Nataliya Kuznetsova-Lobanova | Soviet Union | 258.45 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Bertha Baraldi | Mexico | 252.66 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Tetiana Shtyreva-Volynkina | Soviet Union | 252.42 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Tamara Fedosova-Pogosheva | Soviet Union | 252.09 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Regina Krajnow | Poland | 248.91 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Teri York | Canada | 247.14 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Elizabeth Carruthers | Canada | 243.84 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Sorana Prelipceanu | Romania | 242.61 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Helen Koppell | Great Britain | 242.22 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Mariette Dommers | Netherlands | 239.40 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Laura Kivelä | Finland | 236.25 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Taeko Kubo | Japan | 236.25 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Glenise-Ann Jones | Australia | 232.44 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Melania Decuseară | Romania | 232.02 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 28 | Christiane Wiles | France | 229.56 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 29 | Betsy Sullivan | Jamaica | 210.39 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 30 | Mirnawati Hardjolukito | Indonesia | 188.94 | 30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |