| Venue: Olympisch Zwemstadion. 17 competitors from 8 nations. |
| Final | Pts | Score | | 1. Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston |  USA | 9 | 31.60 | | 2. Georgia Coleman | USA | 10.5 | 30.60 | | 3. Laura Sjöqvist |  SWE | 13.5 | 29.20 | | 4. Mietje Baron |  NED | 21 | 27.20 | | 5. Greta Onnela |  FIN | 25 | 26.00 | | 6. Hanni Rehborn |  GER | 26 | 26.50 |
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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 a Total of four compulsory dives: a standing plain header and running plain header from both the 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. |
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| | | The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final. |
| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston | USA | 6 | 32.00 | | 2. Georgia Coleman | USA | 9.5 | 31.40 | | 3. Greta Onnela | FIN | 21 | 28.00 | | 4. Isabelle White |  GBR | 22.5 | 27.80 | | 5. Ingegärd Töpel | SWE | 24 | 27.00 | | 6. Edith Nielsen |  DEN | 29 | 26.20 | | 7. Truus Klapwijk | NED | 31.5 | 26.00 | | 8. Hjördis Töpel | SWE | 38.5 | 24.60 | | 9. Margret Borgs | GER | 43 | 23.60 |
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| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Laura Sjöqvist | SWE | 8 | 29.20 | | 2. Mietje Baron | NED | 12 | 28.40 | | 3. Hanni Rehborn | GER | 14.5 | 28.20 | | 4. Renée Cretet-Flavier |  FRA | 17.5 | 27.60 | | 5. Alida van Leeuwen | NED | 24 | 26.20 | | 6. Clarita Hunsberger | USA | 29.5 | 24.40 | | 7. D. Grimes | GBR | 34.5 | 22.80 | | 8. K. Le Rossignol | GBR | 39.5 | 19.80 |
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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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