The women's 10 metre platform event was contested for the sixth time at the World Aquatics Championships during the 1991 edition, held in Perth, Western Australia.
The competition was split into two phases: with a preliminary round, where the twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final. In the last round the remaining divers performed a set of dives to determine the final ranking. There were a total number of 25 competitors.
Results edit
Green denotes finalists
| Rank | Diver | Nationality | Preliminary | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | |||
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Fu Mingxia |  China |
406.80 | 2 | 426.51 | 1 |
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Yelena Miroshina |  Soviet Union |
355.95 | 9 | 402.87 | 2 |
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Wendy Williams |  United States |
402.15 | 3 | 400.23 | 3 |
| 4 | Xu Yanmei | China |
435.03 | 1 | 399.12 | 4 |
| 5 | Kim Chun-ok |  North Korea |
390.93 | 4 | 377.76 | 5 |
| 6 | Inga Afonina | Soviet Union |
385.50 | 6 | 376.74 | 6 |
| 7 | Doris Pecher |  Germany |
367.17 | 7 | 376.47 | 7 |
| 8 | Monika Kühn | Germany |
346.98 | 12 | 376.17 | 8 |
| 9 | April Adams |  Australia |
386.58 | 5 | 369.51 | 9 |
| 10 | Vyninka Arlow | Australia |
352.08 | 10 | 347.85 | 10 |
| 11 | Cokey Smith | United States |
365.04 | 8 | 340.65 | 11 |
| 12 | Kamilla Gamme |  Norway |
349.71 | 11 | 329.55 | 12 |
| 13 | Anna Dacyshyn |  Canada |
346.98 | 12 | 326.10 | 13 |
| 14 | Veronica Ribot |  Argentina |
344.07 | 14 | ||
| 15 | Angela Northwick | Canada |
333.81 | 15 | ||
| 16 | Cristina Millan |  Mexico |
331.77 | 16 | ||
| 17 | Yvonne Kostenberger |  Switzerland |
327.72 | 17 | ||
| 18 | Ioana Voicu |  Romania |
325.20 | 18 | ||
| 19 | María José Alcalá | Mexico |
323.85 | 19 | ||
| 20 | Kang Hyon-suk | North Korea |
320.58 | 20 | ||
| 21 | Tania Paterson |  New Zealand |
310.62 | 21 | ||
| 22 | Christiane Rappaz | Switzerland |
302.52 | 22 | ||
| 23 | Luisella Bisello |  Italy |
297.75 | 23 | ||
| 24 | Ann-Sofie Rylander |  Sweden |
296.13 | 24 | ||
| 25 | Silvana Neitzke |  Brazil |
260.85 | 25 | ||