| Date | 15 August 2016 — 15:15 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Parque Aquático Maria Lenk, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Format | Six dives. Top 18 advanced to the semi-finals. | |
| Judge 1 (Dives 1-3) | Ulises Alvarado | ECU |
| Judge 2 (Dives 1-3) | Mohamed Hassan | EGY |
| Judge 3 (Dives 1-3) | Mayur Vyas | IND |
| Judge 4 (Dives 1-3) | Marco Polazzo | ITA |
| Judge 5 (Dives 1-3) | Hélène Morneau | CAN |
| Judge 6 (Dives 1-3) | Marc Faber | NED |
| Judge 7 (Dives 1-3) | Colleen Huffman | USA |
| Judge 1 (Dives 4-6) | Rolando Ruiz | CUB |
| Judge 2 (Dives 4-6) | Gillian Brooker | AUS |
| Judge 3 (Dives 4-6) | Rao Lang | CHN |
| Judge 4 (Dives 4-6) | Nikolaos Touloudis | GRE |
| Judge 5 (Dives 4-6) | William Lee | SGP |
| Judge 6 (Dives 4-6) | Ana Barbosa | BRA |
| Judge 7 (Dives 4-6) | Peter Axtelius | SWE |
| Pos | Nr | Diver | NOC | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Cao Yuan | CHN | |||
| 2 | 27 | Rommel Pacheco | MEX | |||
| 3 | 21 | Kristian Ipsen | USA | |||
| 4 | 7 | Yevgeny Kuznetsov | RUS | |||
| 5 | 19 | Sebastián Morales | COL | |||
| 6 | 18 | Patrick Hausding | GER | |||
| 7 | 12 | Jack Laugher | GBR | |||
| 8 | 17 | Rodrigo Diego | MEX | |||
| 9 | 11 | Stephan Feck | GER | |||
| 10 | 13 | Mike Hixon | USA | |||
| 11 | 9 | Yona Knight-Wisdom | JAM | |||
| 12 | 22 | Philippe Gagné | CAN | |||
| 13 | 6 | Oliver Dingley | IRL | |||
| 14 | 29 | César Castro | BRA | |||
| 15 | 25 | Illia Kvasha | UKR | |||
| 16 | 24 | Grant Nel | AUS | |||
| 17 | 26 | Michele Benedetti | ITA | |||
| 18 | 5 | Ilya Zakharov | RUS | |||
| 19 | 10 | Freddie Woodward | GBR | |||
| 20 | 14 | Ken Terauchi | JPN | |||
| 21 | 8 | He Chao | CHN | |||
| 22 | 15 | Sho Sakai | JPN | |||
| 23 | 23 | Matthieu Rosset | FRA | |||
| 24 | 2 | Wu Ha-Ram | KOR | |||
| 25 | 16 | Youssef Selim | EGY | |||
| 26 | 28 | Kevin Chávez | AUS | |||
| 27 | 4 | Constantin Blaha | AUT | |||
| 28 | 20 | Andrea Chiarabini | ITA | |||
| 29 | 1 | Ahmad Amsyar Bin Azman | MAS |