The women's synchronized 3 metre springboard competition at 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 16 with the preliminary round in the morning and the final in the evening session. These were the first gold medals awarded of the 2011 World Aquatics Championships. The top three teams advanced to the 2012 Summer Olympics.
| width=200 bgcolor=gold | Gold | width=200 bgcolor=silver | Silver | width=200 bgcolor=CC9966 | Bronze |
| Wu Minxia He Zi | Émilie Heymans Jennifer Abel | Anabelle Smith Sharleen Stratton |
The preliminary round was held at 10:00 local time.[1] The final was held at 17:15.[2]
Green denotes finalists The top twelve teams advanced to the final.
| Rank | Diver | Nationality | Preliminary | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||||
| Wu Minxia He Zi | 324.90 | 1 | 356.40 | 1 | |||
| Émilie Heymans Jennifer Abel | 275.10 | 8 | 313.50 | 2 | |||
| Anabelle Smith Sharleen Stratton | 285.90 | 5 | 306.90 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Hanna Pysmenska Olena Fedorova | 291.90 | 2 | 302.40 | 4 | ||
| 5 | Katja Dieckow Uschi Freitag | 276.90 | 6 | 299.40 | 5 | ||
| 6 | Francesca Dallapé Tania Cagnotto | 288.30 | 3 | 297.60 | 6 | ||
| 7 | Christina Loukas Kassidy Cook | 276.90 | 6 | 288.00 | 7 | ||
| 8 | Svetlana Philippova Anastasia Pozdniakova | 288.12 | 4 | 282.72 | 8 | ||
| 9 | Arantxa Chavez Laura Sánchez | 272.10 | 9 | 278.10 | 9 | ||
| 10 | Leong Mun Yee Ng Yan Yee | 254.40 | 11 | 264.60 | 10 | ||
| 11 | Fanny Bouvet Marion Farissier | 255.84 | 10 | 254.10 | 11 | ||
| 12 | Lo I Teng Choi Sut Ian | 253.62 | 12 | 249.60 | 12 | ||
| 13 | Mai Nakagawa Sayaka Shibusawa | 247.80 | 13 | ||||
| 14 | Flora Gondos Zsofia Reisinger | 241.38 | 14 | ||||
| 15 | Alicia Blagg Rebecca Gallantree | 239.40 | 15 | ||||
| 16 | Eleni Katsouli Iouliana Banousi | 235.23 | 16 | ||||
| 17 | Jennifer Benitez Leyre Eizaguirre | 235.14 | 17 | ||||
| 18 | Ngai Ho Wing Chan Sharon | 192.18 | 18 | ||||