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.[1]

Women's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Irina Kalinina  Soviet Union Martina Proeber  East Germany Karin Guthke  East Germany

Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women

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.

2. 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.