| Final | Pts | Score | | 1. Pete Desjardins |  USA | 6 | 98.74 | | 2. Farid Simaika |  EGY | 9 | 99.58 | | 3. Michael Galitzen | USA | 15 | 92.34 | | 4. Walter Colbath | USA | 21 | 85.78 | | 5. Ewald Riebschläger |  GER | 27 | 82.44 | | 6. Karl Schumm | GER | 28 | 80.54 | | 7. Alfred Phillips |  CAN | 35 | 77.26 | | 8. Albert Knight |  GBR | 41 | 72.22 | | 9. Julius Rehborn | GER | 43 | 67.78 |
Simiaka was originally announced as the winner of the competition, and the Egyptian national anthem was played.
The officials then declared that a mistake had been made, and that ordinals, not Total points, determined the winner.
Consequently, Desjardins was awarded his second gold medal!
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| A point-for-place system was used. For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive. | | The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre boards. | | Divers performed four compulsory dives – running plain dive, backward somersault (5 metre platform), standing plain dive, running plain dive (10 metre platform). | | – and four dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either platform, for a Total of eight dives. |
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