Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
  Jennifer Chandler   United States
  Christa Köhler   East Germany
  Cynthia Potter   United States
«1972 1980»
Diving at the
1976 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

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:

  1. Preliminary round (19 July)
    Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (20 July)
    Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points
 Jennifer Chandler (USA) 463.32 1 506.19
 Christa Köhler (GDR) 441.90 6 469.41
 Cynthia Potter (USA) 455.16 3 466.83
4  Heidi Ramlow-Becker (GDR) 445.08 5 462.15
5  Karin Guthke (GDR) 441.03 7 459.81
6  Olga Dmitriyeva (URS) 447.33 4 432.24
7  Irina Kalinina (URS) 434.28 8 417.99
8  Barbara Nejman (USA) 455.49 2 365.07
9  Beverly Boys (CAN) 420.57 9
10  Ursula Sapp (FRG) 417.63 10
11  Ulrika Knape-Lindbergh (SWE) 416.94 11
12  Agneta Henriksson (SWE) 404.19 12
13  Helen Koppell (GBR) 396.96 13
14  Teri York (CAN) 393.36 14
15  Madeline Barnett (AUS) 391.77 15
16  Tatyana Podmaryeva (URS) 387.39 16
17  Eniko Kiefer (CAN) 383.13 17
18  Rikiko Yamanaka (JPN) 381.96 18
19  Renate Piotraschke (FRG) 377.49 19
20  Susanne Wetteskog (SWE) 369.15 20
21  Rebecca Ewert (NZL) 352.62 21
22  Elizabeth Jack (AUS) 348.54 22
23  Norma Baraldi (MEX) 336.12 23
24  Fusako Kakumaru (JPN) 330.54 24
25  Carmen-Belen Nuñez (ESP) 318.66 25
26  Aura Dinisio (VEN) 293.04 26
27  Peri Suzan Özkum (TUR) 274.44 27

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