| Venue: Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 23 competitors from 7 nations. |
| Final Monday 15th July | Pts | Score | | 1. Erik Adlerz | SWE | 5 | 39.9 | | 2. Oskar Wetzell | FIN | 13 | 33.8 | | 3. Kalle Kainuvaara | FIN | 14 | 33.2 | | 4. Albert Nyman | FIN | 21 | 32.0 | | 5. Leo Suni | FIN | 22 | 32.1 | | 6. Albert Zürner | GeR | 26 | 31.7 | | 7. Sven Montan | SWE | 31 | 30.2 |
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| | | Friday, 12th 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. Paul Günther | GeR | 8 | 36.1 | | 2. Torsten Eriksson | SWE | 11 | 35.8 | | 3. Tauno Ilmoniemi | FIN | 13 | 35.0 | | 4. Alfred Johansson | SWE | 14 | 34.7 | | 5. Nils Tvedt | NOR | 25 | 31.7 | | 6. Elis Holmer | SWE | 31 | 30.2 | | 7. Sigvard Andersen | NOR | 32 | 28.6 | | -. Viktor Baranov | RUS | - | DNF |
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| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. John Jansson | SWE | 5 | 38.3 | | 2. George Gaidzik | USA | 13 | 36.2 | | 3. George Yvon | GBR | 17 | 35.2 | | 4. Gunnar Ekstrand | SWE | 18 | 35.3 | | 5. Arthur McAleenan | USA | 20 | 34.9 | | 6. Carlo Bonfanti | ITA | 32 | 28.5 | | 7. Alfred Engelsen | NOR | 33 | 28.3 |
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| Ranking | Pts | Score | | 1. Hjalmar Johansson | SWE | 7 | 40.1 | | 2. Toivo Aro | FIN | 10 | 39.4 | | 3. Axel Runström | SWE | 15 | 38.3 | | 4. Ernst Brandsten | SWE | 19 | 37.7 | | 5. Viktor Crondahl | SWE | 22 | 37.0 | | 6. Hans Luber | GeR | 27 | 36.2 | | 7. Kurt Behrens | GeR | 31 | 35.1 | | 8. John P. Lyons | CAN | 40 | 32.5 | | 9. Jens Stefenson | SWE | 44 | 31.2 |
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| 1912: Erik Adlerz | SWE | | 1920: Arvid Wallman | SWE | | 1924: Dick Eve | AUS |
| 1904: William Dickey | USA |
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