# 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:
* Preliminary round (20 July)
    Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* 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.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ½ Prel. | Total |
| | Irina Kalinina | Soviet Union | 478.86 | 1 | 486.480 | 1 | 239.430 | 725.910 |
| | Martina Proeber | East Germany | 450.99 | 3 | 473.400 | 2 | 225.495 | 698.895 |
| | Karin Guthke | East Germany | 435.21 | 4 | 467.640 | 3 | 217.605 | 685.245 |
| 4 | Zhanna Tsyrulnikova | Soviet Union | 454.35 | 2 | 446.490 | 5 | 227.175 | 673.665 |
| 5 | Martina Jäschke | East Germany | 427.47 | 6 | 454.380 | 4 | 213.735 | 668.115 |
| 6 | Valerie McFarlane | Australia | 413.97 | 7 | 444.060 | 6 | 206.985 | 651.045 |
| 7 | Irina Sidorova | Soviet Union | 432.57 | 5 | 433.980 | 8 | 216.285 | 650.265 |
| 8 | Lourdes González | Cuba | 409.65 | 8 | 435.180 | 7 | 204.825 | 640.005 |
| 9 | Guadalupe Canseco | Mexico | 407.52 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 10 | Antonette Wilken | Zimbabwe | 402.21 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 11 | Susanne Wetteskog | Sweden | 399.06 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Ildikó Kelemen-Kovács | Hungary | 391.68 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 13 | Heidemarie Bártová | Czechoslovakia | 390.39 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Deborah Hill | Zimbabwe | 390.27 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Ruxandra Hociotă | Romania | 389.10 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Elsa Tenorio | Mexico | 389.01 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Carmen-Belen Nuñez | Spain | 388.32 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Jennifer Donnet | Australia | 376.77 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Sonia Fernández | Spain | 370.95 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Alison Drake | Great Britain | 368.01 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Annie Liljeberg | Sweden | 365.25 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Deborah Jay | Great Britain | 362.73 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Liliana Cîrstea | Romania | 354.33 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Isabelle Arène | France | 345.06 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |