| Diver | | Team | Result | | |
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| 1. | Minxia Wu / Jingjing Guo | | China | 309.00 | | Q |
| 2. | Julia Pakhalina / Vera Ilyina | | Russia | 302.49 | | Q |
| 3. | Sara Hildebrand / Cassandra Cardinell | | United States of America | 283.26 | | Q |
| 4. | Tandi Gerrard / Jane Smith | | Great Britain | 282.24 | | Q |
| 5. | Paola Espinosa / Laura Sanchez | | Mexico | 281.25 | | Q |
| 6. | Conny Schmalfuss / Ditte Kotzian | | Germany | 281.07 | | Q |
| 7. | Linda Dackiw / Chantelle Michell | | Australia | 274.50 | | Q |
| 8. | Kristina Ischenko / Olena Fedorova | | Ukraine | 266.25 | | Q |
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| 9. | Dolores Saez De Ibarra / Leyre Eizaguirre | | Spain | 247.92 | | |
| 10. | Natasia Salivonchyk / Darya Romenskaya | | Belarus | 246.99 | | |
| 11. | Estelle Escoffier / Clemence Monnery | | France | 230.25 | | |
| 12. | Olga Kakotkina / Irina Zelepukina | | Tadzhikistan | 230.10 | | |
| 13. | Sotiria Koutsopetrou / Diamantina Georgatou | | Greece | 217.74 | | |
| 14. | Ana Predragovic / Marija Ivezic | | Yugoslavia | 215.07 | | |
| 15. | Min Kyung Kang / Hye Jen Choi | | South Korea | 210.15 | | |
| 16. | Y. Ortiz Espinosa / Iohana Cruz Talavera | | Cuba | 207.30 | | |