Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

The women's 3 metre springboard diving competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of August, 2012. They were held at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park.

Wu Minxia from China won the gold medal. He Zi, also from China, won the silver medal. Laura Sánchez from Mexico won the bronze medal.

## Format

The diving competition was held in three rounds:

- Preliminary round: All 30 divers do six dives. The top 18 divers go to the semi-final round.
- Semi-final round: The 18 divers do six dives. The scores from the preliminary round do not count. The top 12 divers go to the final round.
- Final round: The 12 divers do six dives. The scores from the semi-final round do not count. The top three divers win gold, silver, and bronze medals accordingly.

## Results

|rowspan="2"|Rank|rowspan="2"|Diver|rowspan="2"|Nation|colspan="2"|Preliminary|colspan="2"|Semi-final|colspan="6"|Final||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||align="left"|Wu Minxia|align="left"||387.75|1|394.40|1|79.50|79.75|85.25|84.00|85.50|**414.00**|
||align="left"|He Zi|align="left"||363.85|2|354.50|3|76.50|83.70|78.00|76.50|64.50|**379.20**|
||align="left"||align="left"||320.15|9|336.50|7|70.50|67.50|75.00|74.40|75.00|**362.40**|
|4|align="left"||align="left"||349.80|3|362.10|2|76.50|69.00|68.20|72.00|76.50|**362.20**|
|5|align="left"||align="left"||342.70|5|327.60|9|70.5|67.50|66.65|69.00|72.00|**345.65**|
|6|align="left"||align="left"||344.15|4|353.25|4|66.00|77.50|55.50|72.00|72.00|**343.00**|
|7|align="left"||align="left"||320.10|10|345.60|5|72.00|72.85|70.50|72.00|55.50|**342.85**|
|8|align="left"||align="left"||330.45|7|339.75|6|69.00|64.50|66.00|65.10|67.50|**332.10**|
|9|align="left"||align="left"||308.70|14|314.70|12|65.80|63.00|63.00|61.50|64.50|**317.80**|
|10|align="left"||align="left"||318.60|11|319.80|10|63.00|55.80|67.50|67.50|63.00|**316.80**|
|11|align="left"||align="left"||289.65|18|315.60|11|67.50|63.00|60.00|58.90|60.00|**309.40**|
|12|align="left"||align="left"||337.20|6|331.35|8|67.50|46.20|72.00|58.50|51.00|**295.20**|
|13|align="left"||align="left"||298.95|17|313.95|13|colspan="6"|Did not advance|||||
|14|align="left"||align="left"||311.70|12|313.20|14|colspan="6"|Did not advance|||||
|15|align="left"||align="left"||311.25|13|312.60|15|colspan="6"|Did not advance|||||
|16|align="left"||align="left"||303.90|15|312.50|16|colspan="6"|Did not advance|||||
|17|align="left"||align="left"||325.00|8|310.70|17|colspan="6"|Did not advance|||||
|18|align="left"||align="left"||299.25|16|267.10|18|colspan="6"|Did not advance|||||
|19|align="left"||align="left"||286.50|19|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|20|align="left"|Cheong Jun Hoong|align="left"||272.45|20|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|21|align="left"||align="left"||271.50|21|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|22|align="left"||align="left"||266.45|22|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|23|align="left"||align="left"||266.00|23|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|24|align="left"|Ng Yan Yee|align="left"||257.85|24|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|25|align="left"||align="left"||257.70|25|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|26|align="left"||align="left"||257.10|26|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|27|align="left"||align="left"||248.70|27|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|28|align="left"||align="left"||241.15|28|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|29|align="left"||align="left"||225.45|29|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||
|30|align="left"||align="left"||224.60|30|colspan="8"|Did not advance|||||||