Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Diving at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |
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Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Centre |
Date | August 10 – 23 |
Competitors | 125 from 30 nations |
Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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Individual | ||
3 m springboard | men | women |
10 m platform | men | women |
Synchronized | ||
3 m springboard | men | women |
10 m platform | men | women |
Diving competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 10 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.
Competition format
The following events were contested by both men and women in Beijing:[1]
- 3m Springboard Synchronized
- 10m Platform Synchronized
- 3m Springboard
- 10m Platform
Individual events consisted of preliminaries, semifinals and finals. The order of divers in the preliminary round were determined by computerized random selection, during the Technical Meeting. The 18 divers with the highest scores in the preliminaries proceeded to the semifinals.
The semifinal consisted of the top 18 ranked divers from the preliminary competition and the final consisted of the top 12 ranked divers from the semifinal.[2]
Competition schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)
Day | Time | Event |
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 3m Springboard Synchronized Women |
Monday, August 11, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 10m Platform Synchronized Men |
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 10m Platform Synchronized Women |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 3m Springboard Synchronized Men |
Friday, August 15, 2008 | 13:30–16:30 | 3m Springboard Women (Preliminaries) |
Saturday, August 16, 2008 | 20:00–21:40 | 3m Springboard Women (Semifinal) |
Sunday, August 17, 2008 | 20:30–22:00 | 3m Springboard Women (Final) |
Monday, August 18, 2008 | 19:00–22:30 | 3m Springboard Men (Preliminaries) |
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 10:00–11:50 | 3m Springboard Men (Semifinal) |
20:30–22:10 | 3m Springboard Men (Final) | |
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 19:00–22:10 | 10m Platform Women (Preliminaries) |
Thursday, August 21, 2008 | 10:00–11:40 | 10m Platform Women (Semifinal) |
20:00–21:30 | 10m Platform Women (Final) | |
Friday, August 22, 2008 | 19:00–22:45 | 10m Platform Men (Preliminaries) |
Saturday, August 23, 2008 | 10:00–11:50 | 10m Platform Men (Semifinal) |
20:00–21:40 | 10m Platform Men (Final) |
Qualifying criteria
An NOC could enter up to 2 qualified divers in each individual event and up to 1 team in each synchronized event.
Qualifying places for each event were awarded as follows:
Competition | Date | Venue | Individual Diving | Synchronized Diving |
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FINA World Championships | March 17 - April 1, 2007 | 12 | 3 | |
FINA Diving World Cup | February 19–25, 2008 | 22 | 4 | |
Host nation | - | - | - | |
TOTAL | 34 | 8 |
Participating countries
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Medal summary
Medal table
Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 Official Website.[3]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 11 | |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (7 nations) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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3 metre springboard |
He Chong |
Alexandre Despatie |
Qin Kai |
10 metre platform |
Matthew Mitcham |
Zhou Lüxin |
Gleb Galperin |
Synchronized 3 metre springboard |
Wang Feng and Qin Kai |
Dmitri Sautin and Yuriy Kunakov |
Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov |
Synchronized 10 metre platform |
Lin Yue and Huo Liang |
Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein |
Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok |
Women
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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3 metre springboard |
Guo Jingjing |
Yuliya Pakhalina |
Wu Minxia |
10 metre platform |
Chen Ruolin |
Émilie Heymans |
Wang Xin |
Synchronized 3 metre springboard |
Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia |
Yuliya Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova |
Ditte Kotzian and Heike Fischer |
Synchronized 10 metre platform |
Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin |
Briony Cole and Melissa Wu |
Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz |
Qualification summary
Nation | Synchronized Diving | Individual Diving | Total | |||||||
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Men's 3m | Men's 10m | Women's 3m | Women's 10m | Men's 3m | Men's 10m | Women's 3m | Women's 10m | Quotas | Athletes | |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | |||
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | ||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | ||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||
1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
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1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | |||
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Total: 29 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 150 | 136 |
See also
References
- ↑ "Olympic Diving Schedule". FINA. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ↑ "The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Diving Competition Format". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-07-28. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
- ↑ "Diving Medal Standings". Archived from the original on 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2008-08-17.