| Date | 2 August 2021 — 15:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Olympic Aquatics Centre, 2-1, 2chome, Tatsumi, Koto-ku, Tatsumi-no-Mori Seaside Park, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Format | Six dives. Top 18 advanced to the semi-finals. | |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wang Zongyuan | CHN | 531.30 | |||
| 2 | Xie Siyi | CHN | 520.90 | |||
| 3 | Rommel Pacheco | MEX | 479.25 | |||
| 4 | James Heatly | GBR | 458.40 | |||
| 5 | U Ha-Ram | KOR | 452.45 | |||
| 6 | Jack Laugher | GBR | 445.05 | |||
| 7 | Yevgeny Kuznetsov | ROC | 444.75 | |||
| 8 | Martin Wolfram | GER | 444.50 | |||
| 9 | Osmar Olvera | MEX | 442.45 | |||
| 10 | Ken Terauchi | JPN | 430.20 | |||
| 11 | Alexis Jandard | FRA | 423.60 | |||
| 12 | Mohab Mohymen Ishak | EGY | 422.75 | |||
| 13 | Yona Knight-Wisdom | JAM | 411.65 | |||
| 14 | Daniel Restrepo | COL | 411.50 | |||
| 15 | Sebastián Morales | COL | 400.85 | |||
| 16 | Anton Down-Jenkins | NZL | 394.45 | |||
| 17 | Andrew Capobianco | USA | 385.50 | |||
| 18 | Jonathan Ruvalcaba | DOM | 383.05 | |||
| 19 | Nicolás García | ESP | 382.60 | |||
| 20 | Lorenzo Marsaglia | ITA | 369.60 | |||
| 21 | Patrick Hausding | GER | 364.05 | |||
| 22 | Oleh Kolodiy | UKR | 351.25 | |||
| 23 | Tyler Downs | USA | 348.70 | |||
| 24 | Nikita Shleykher | ROC | 339.70 | |||
| 25 | Oliver Dingley | IRL | 335.00 | |||
| 26 | Alberto Arévalo | ESP | 322.85 | |||
| 27 | Shixin Li | AUS | 320.35 | |||
| 28 | Kim Yeong-Nam | KOR | 286.80 | |||
| 29 | Cédric Fofana | CAN | 225.35 |