Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard
Olympic diving event
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 change
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 change
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Semi-final | Final | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Dive 1 | Dive 2 | Dive 3 | Dive 4 | Dive 5 | Total points | |||
|
Wu Minxia |  China
|
387.75 | 1 | 394.40 | 1 | 79.50 | 79.75 | 85.25 | 84.00 | 85.50 | 414.00 |
|
He Zi | China
|
363.85 | 2 | 354.50 | 3 | 76.50 | 83.70 | 78.00 | 76.50 | 64.50 | 379.20 |
|
Laura Sánchez |  Mexico
|
320.15 | 9 | 336.50 | 7 | 70.50 | 67.50 | 75.00 | 74.40 | 75.00 | 362.40 |
| 4 | Tania Cagnotto |  Italy
|
349.80 | 3 | 362.10 | 2 | 76.50 | 69.00 | 68.20 | 72.00 | 76.50 | 362.20 |
| 5 | Sharleen Stratton |  Australia
|
342.70 | 5 | 327.60 | 9 | 70.5 | 67.50 | 66.65 | 69.00 | 72.00 | 345.65 |
| 6 | Jennifer Abel |  Canada
|
344.15 | 4 | 353.25 | 4 | 66.00 | 77.50 | 55.50 | 72.00 | 72.00 | 343.00 |
| 7 | Cassidy Krug |  United States
|
320.10 | 10 | 345.60 | 5 | 72.00 | 72.85 | 70.50 | 72.00 | 55.50 | 342.85 |
| 8 | Christina Loukas | United States
|
330.45 | 7 | 339.75 | 6 | 69.00 | 64.50 | 66.00 | 65.10 | 67.50 | 332.10 |
| 9 | Olena Fedorova |  Ukraine
|
308.70 | 14 | 314.70 | 12 | 65.80 | 63.00 | 63.00 | 61.50 | 64.50 | 317.80 |
| 10 | Anna Lindberg |  Sweden
|
318.60 | 11 | 319.80 | 10 | 63.00 | 55.80 | 67.50 | 67.50 | 63.00 | 316.80 |
| 11 | Jaele Patrick | Australia
|
289.65 | 18 | 315.60 | 11 | 67.50 | 63.00 | 60.00 | 58.90 | 60.00 | 309.40 |
| 12 | Emilie Heymans | Canada
|
337.20 | 6 | 331.35 | 8 | 67.50 | 46.20 | 72.00 | 58.50 | 51.00 | 295.20 |
| 13 | Hannah Starling |  Great Britain
|
298.95 | 17 | 313.95 | 13 | Did not advance | |||||
| 14 | Nora Subschinski |  Germany
|
311.70 | 12 | 313.20 | 14 | Did not advance | |||||
| 15 | Francesca Dallapé | Italy
|
311.25 | 13 | 312.60 | 15 | Did not advance | |||||
| 16 | Katja Dieckow | Germany
|
303.90 | 15 | 312.50 | 16 | Did not advance | |||||
| 17 | Nadezhda Bazhina |  Russia
|
325.00 | 8 | 310.70 | 17 | Did not advance | |||||
| 18 | Rebecca Gallantree | Great Britain
|
299.25 | 16 | 267.10 | 18 | Did not advance | |||||
| 19 | Anastasia Pozdniakova | Russia
|
286.50 | 19 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 20 | Cheong Jun Hoong |  Malaysia
|
272.45 | 20 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 21 | Hanna Pysmenska | Ukraine
|
271.50 | 21 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 22 | Flóra Gondos |  Hungary
|
266.45 | 22 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 23 | Jocelyn Castillo |  Venezuela
|
266.00 | 23 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 24 | Ng Yan Yee | Malaysia
|
257.85 | 24 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 25 | Nóra Barta | Hungary
|
257.70 | 25 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 26 | Fanny Bouvet |  France
|
257.10 | 26 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 27 | Marion Farissier | France
|
248.70 | 27 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 28 | Juliana Veloso |  Brazil
|
241.15 | 28 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 29 | Arantxa Chávez | Mexico
|
225.45 | 29 | Did not advance | |||||||
| 30 | Jenifer Benítez |  Spain
|
224.60 | 30 | Did not advance | |||||||