Women's 3 meter springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 15 to August 17, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It is an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three meters above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 30 divers each perform five dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs five dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The highest and lowest score from each judge are dropped. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by 0.6, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Results

RankDiverCountryPreliminarySemifinalFinalPointsRankPointsRankPoints Guo Jingjing 373.90 1 398.55 1 415.35 358.15 2 383.50 2 398.60 Wu Minxia 349.45 4 345.30 3 389.854 350.60 3 324.60 10 374.605 332.90 6 332.40 5 349.206 294.75 12 324.70 9 342.157 288.00 13 325.90 8 331.008 300.15 11 338.90 4 316.709 312.60 8 329.00 7 315.7010 334.35 5 314.40 12 312.2511 323.75 7 329.10 6 298.4012 276.15 18 318.15 11 269.2513 300.75 10 296.10 13 Did not advance14 284.85 15 294.45 14 Did not advance15 282.80 16 292.25 15 Did not advance16 276.85 17 287.35 16 Did not advance17 286.10 14 277.50 17 Did not advance18 302.70 9 263.00 18 Did not advance19 274.20 19 did not advance20 268.85 20 did not advance21 253.50 21 did not advance21 Leong Mun Yee 253.50 21 did not advance23 251.15 23 did not advance24 247.95 24 did not advance25 232.75 25 did not advance26 223.50 26 did not advance27 218.75 27 did not advance28 210.90 28 did not advance29 207.00 29 did not advance30 194.05 30 did not advance

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