| Date | 12 August 2016 — 15:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Parque Aquático Maria Lenk, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Format | Five dives. Top 18 advanced to the semi-finals. | |
| Judge 1 (Dives 1-3) | Mohamed Hassan | EGY |
| Judge 2 (Dives 1-3) | Ana Barbosa | BRA |
| Judge 3 (Dives 1-3) | Rao Lang | CHN |
| Judge 4 (Dives 1-3) | Nikolaos Touloudis | GRE |
| Judge 5 (Dives 1-3) | Simon Latimer | NZL |
| Judge 6 (Dives 1-3) | Anatoliy Holovan | UKR |
| Judge 7 (Dives 1-3) | Min Suck-Hong | KOR |
| Judge 1 (Dives 4-5) | Florin Avasiloae | ROU |
| Judge 2 (Dives 4-5) | Mayur Vyas | IND |
| Judge 3 (Dives 4-5) | Arne Tellefsen | NOR |
| Judge 4 (Dives 4-5) | Hélène Morneau | CAN |
| Judge 5 (Dives 4-5) | Gillian Brooker | AUS |
| Judge 6 (Dives 4-5) | Rolando Ruiz | CUB |
| Judge 7 (Dives 4-5) | Marco Polazzo | ITA |
| Pos | Nr | Diver | NOC | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Jennifer Abel | CAN | |||
| 2 | 3 | He Zi | CHN | |||
| 3 | 1 | Shi Tingmao | CHN | |||
| 4 | 12 | Tania Cagnotto | ITA | |||
| 5 | 29 | Esther Qin | AUS | |||
| 6 | 19 | Abby Johnston | USA | |||
| 7 | 23 | Pamela Ware | CAN | |||
| 8 | 13 | Kassidy Cook | USA | |||
| 9 | 18 | Maddison Keeney | AUS | |||
| 10 | 11 | Olena Fedorova | UKR | |||
| 11 | 22 | Uschi Freitag | NED | |||
| 12 | 24 | Anastasiya Nedobiha | UKR | |||
| 13 | 21 | Tina Punzel | GER | |||
| 14 | 28 | Grace Reid | GBR | |||
| 15 | 15 | Kristina Ilinykh | RUS | |||
| 16 | 20 | Nora Subschinski | GER | |||
| 17 | 27 | Ng Yan Yee | MAS | |||
| 18 | 8 | Dolores Hernández | MEX | |||
| 19 | 5 | Maria Marconi | ITA | |||
| 20 | 16 | Rebecca Gallantree | GBR | |||
| 21 | 26 | Cheong Jun Hoong | MAS | |||
| 22 | 14 | Melany Hernández | MEX | |||
| 23 | 7 | Diana Pineda | COL | |||
| 24 | 17 | Elizabeth Cui | NZL | |||
| 25 | 10 | Marcela Marić | CRO | |||
| 26 | 9 | Nadezhda Bazhina | RUS | |||
| 27 | 6 | Juliana Veloso | BRA | |||
| 28 | 4 | Maha Amer | EGY | |||
| 29 | 25 | Julia Vincent | RSA |