| Date | 16 August 2016 — 10:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Parque Aquático Maria Lenk, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Format | Six dives. Top 12 advanced to the final. | |
| Judge 1 (Dives 1-3) | Rolando Ruiz | CUB |
| Judge 2 (Dives 1-3) | Florin Avasiloae | ROU |
| Judge 3 (Dives 1-3) | Min Suck-Hong | KOR |
| Judge 4 (Dives 1-3) | Colleen Huffman | USA |
| Judge 5 (Dives 1-3) | Ildikó Kelemen | HUN |
| Judge 6 (Dives 1-3) | Félix Calderón Rodríguez | PUR |
| Judge 7 (Dives 1-3) | Mayur Vyas | IND |
| Judge 1 (Dives 4-6) | Rao Lang | CHN |
| Judge 2 (Dives 4-6) | Hélène Morneau | CAN |
| Judge 3 (Dives 4-6) | Gillian Brooker | AUS |
| Judge 4 (Dives 4-6) | Anatoliy Holovan | UKR |
| Judge 5 (Dives 4-6) | Cristina Ríos | COL |
| Judge 6 (Dives 4-6) | Marco Polazzo | ITA |
| Judge 7 (Dives 4-6) | Masaaki Ito | JPN |
| Pos | Nr | Diver | NOC | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | Cao Yuan | CHN | |||
| 2 | 17 | Rommel Pacheco | MEX | |||
| 3 | 15 | Yevgeny Kuznetsov | RUS | |||
| 4 | 9 | Mike Hixon | USA | |||
| 5 | 7 | Philippe Gagné | CAN | |||
| 6 | 5 | César Castro | BRA | |||
| 7 | 16 | Kristian Ipsen | USA | |||
| 8 | 4 | Illia Kvasha | UKR | |||
| 9 | 6 | Oliver Dingley | IRL | |||
| 10 | 13 | Patrick Hausding | GER | |||
| 11 | 14 | Sebastián Morales | COL | |||
| 12 | 12 | Jack Laugher | GBR | |||
| 13 | 2 | Michele Benedetti | ITA | |||
| 14 | 8 | Yona Knight-Wisdom | JAM | |||
| 15 | 3 | Grant Nel | AUS | |||
| 16 | 11 | Rodrigo Diego | MEX | |||
| 17 | 10 | Stephan Feck | GER | |||
| 18 | 1 | Ilya Zakharov | RUS |