Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard

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{{Infobox Olympic event

|event = Women's 3 metre springboard

|games = 2000 Summer

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|gold = Fu Mingxia

|goldNOC = CHN

|silver = Guo Jingjing

|silverNOC = CHN

|bronze = Dörte Lindner

|bronzeNOC = GER

|prev = 1996

|next = 2004

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The women's 3 metre springboard was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/54290 |title=Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Women |work=Olympedia |accessdate=25 May 2020}}

The competition was split into three phases:

;Preliminary round: 27 September — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive and a twisting dive. There were no limitations in degree of difficulty. The 18 divers with the highest total score advanced to the semi-final.

;Semi-final: 27 September — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive and a twisting dive. The overall difficulty degree was limited to 9.5. The 12 divers with the highest combined score from the semi-final and preliminary dives advanced to the final.

;Final: 28 September — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive and a twisting dive. There were no limitations in difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the final and semi-final dives.