| Venue: Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 18 competitors from 7 nations. |
| Final | Pts | Score | | 1. Greta Johansson |  SWE | 5 | 39.9 | | 2. Lisa Regnell | SWE | 11 | 36.0 | | 3. Isabelle White |  GBR | 17 | 34.0 | | 4. Elsa Regnell | SWE | 20 | 33.2 | | 5. Ella Eklund | SWE | 22 | 31.9 | | 6. Elsa Andersson | SWE | 25 | 31.3 | | 7. Selma Andersson | SWE | 36 | 28.3 | | 8. Tora Larsson | SWE | 39 | 26.8 |
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It was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms.
The competitors performed four compulsory dives.
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| | | ------, -th July. The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification. |
| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Greta Johansson | SWE | 5 | 36.2 | | 2. Lisa Regnell | SWE | 13 | 34.1 | | 3. Isabelle White | GBR | 14 | 33.9 | | 4. Tora Larsson | SWE | 21 | 31.0 | | 5. Selma Andersson | SWE | 23 | 30.6 | | 6. Elsa Andersson | SWE | 25 | 29.7 | | 7. Willy Thulin | SWE | 35 | 25.0 | | 8. Märta Adlerz | SWE | 39 | 21.9 |
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| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Ella Eklund | SWE | 7 | 34.4 | | 2. Elsa Regnell | SWE | 8 | 34.9 | | 3. Gerda Johansson | SWE | 16 | 28.7 | | 4. Dagmar Nilsson | SWE | 19 | 27.3 | | 5. Ester Edström | SWE | 23 | 26.3 | | -. Hanny Kellner |  AUT | - | DNF |
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| Olympic Champions Women 10m Paltform | | 2016: | Ren Qian |  CHN | | 2012: | Chen Ruolin | CHN | | 2008: | Chen Ruolin | CHN | | 2004: | Chantelle Newbery |  AUS | | 2000: | Laura Wilkinson |  USA | | 1996: | Fu Mingxia | CHN | | 1992: | Fu Mingxia | CHN | | 1988: | Xu Yanmei | CHN | | 1984: | Zhou Jihong | CHN | | 1980: | Martina Jäschke |  GDR | | 1976: | Elena Vaytsekhovskaya |  URS | | 1972: | Ulrika Knape | SWE | | 1968: | Milena Duchková |  TCH | | 1964: | Lesley Bush | USA | | 1960: | Ingrid Krämer |  EUA | | 1956: | Pat McCormick | USA | | 1952: | Pat McCormick | USA | | 1948: | Vicki Draves | USA | | 1936: | Dorothy Poynton-Hill | USA | | 1932: | Dorothy Poynton-Hill | USA | | 1928: | Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston | USA | | 1924: | Caroline Smith | USA | | 1920: | Stefanie Clausen |  DEN | | 1912: | Greta Johansson | SWE |
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