Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 136 athletes coming from the different nations; each has been allowed to enter not more than 16 divers (up to eight males and eight females) with only two in individual events and a pair in synchronized events.[1]

Summary

For individual diving, the top twelve from the 2015 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2016 Diving World Cup will achieve a quota spot. For the pairs events, the top three from the world championships, the top four from the world cup and the hosts qualify.[1]

NationSynchronized divingIndividual divingTotal
Men's
3 m
Men's
10 m
Women's
3 m
Women's
10 m
Men's
3 m
Men's
10 m
Women's
3 m
Women's
10 m
QuotasAthletes
 AustraliaX222299
 Austria111
 Belarus222
 BrazilXXXX111189
 CanadaXX122297
 ChinaXXXX22221213
 Colombia12144
 Croatia111
 Egypt111144
 France11133
 GermanyXXX2222118
 Great BritainXXXX21221111
 Hungary111
 Ireland111
 ItalyXX212188
 Jamaica111
 Japan2133
 MalaysiaXX112286
 MexicoXXX2222119
 Netherlands111
 New Zealand111
 North KoreaX233
 Puerto Rico111
 RussiaXX2222108
 South Africa111
 South Korea1121
 UkraineX12267
 United StatesXXX22221110
 Venezuela222
Total: 29 NOCs888829282928146136

FINA final list - 10 July 2016 [2]

Timeline

EventDateVenue
2015 European Diving ChampionshipsJune 9–14, 2015 Rostock
2015 Pan American GamesJuly 10–13, 2015 Toronto
2015 World Aquatics ChampionshipsJuly 24 – August 9, 2015 Kazan
2015 Asian Diving CupSeptember 4–6, 2015 Kuala Lumpur
Oceania ChampionshipsDecember 12–13, 2015 Melbourne
2016 FINA Diving World CupFebruary 19–24, 2016 Rio de Janeiro
Re-allocation of unused quotaJune 16–24, 2016

Synchronized diving

Men's 3 m synchronized springboard

CompetitionPlacesQualified teams
FINA World Championships3 China
 Russia
 Great Britain
FINA Diving World Cup4 Germany
 Mexico
 Italy
 United States
Host nation1 Brazil
Total8

Men's 10 m synchronized platform

CompetitionPlacesQualified teams
FINA World Championships3 China
 Mexico
 Russia
FINA Diving World Cup4 Germany
 Great Britain
 United States
 Ukraine
Host nation1 Brazil
Total8

Women's 3 m synchronized springboard

CompetitionPlacesQualified teams
FINA World Championships3 China
 Canada
 Australia
FINA Diving World Cup4 Italy
 Malaysia
 Great Britain
 Germany
Host nation1 Brazil
Total8

Women's 10 m synchronized platform

CompetitionPlacesQualified teams
FINA World Championships3 China
 Canada
 North Korea
FINA Diving World Cup4 Malaysia
 Great Britain
 United States
 Mexico
Host nation1 Brazil
Total8

Individual diving

Men's 3 m springboard

For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

CompetitionPlacesQualified divers
FINA World Championships12 China (Cao Yuan)
 China (He Chao)
 Russia (Ilya Zakharov)
 Russia (Evgeny Kuznetsov)
 Great Britain (Jack Laugher)
 France (Matthieu Rosset)
 Mexico (Rommel Pacheco)
 Germany (Patrick Hausding)
 Ukraine (Illya Kvasha)
 Japan (Ken Terauchi)
 Australia (Kevin Chavez)
 South Korea (Woo Ha-ram)
2015 European Diving Championships1not allocated – Matthieu Rosset qualified above
Oceania Qualifying1 Australia (Grant Nel)
African Qualifying1 Egypt (Youssef Selim)
2015 Asian Diving Cup1 Malaysia (Ahmad Azman)
2015 Pan American Games1not allocated – Rommel Pacheco qualified above
FINA Diving World CupUp to 18 Italy (Andrea Chiarabini)
 Italy (Michele Benedetti)
 United States (Michael Hixon)
 Colombia (Sebastián Morales)
 Ireland (Oliver Dingley)
 Japan (Sho Sakai)
 Mexico (Rodrigo Diego López)
 United States (Kristian Ipsen)
 Canada (Philippe Gagné)
 Brazil (César Castro)
 Jamaica (Yona Knight-Wisdom)
 Great Britain (Freddie Woodward)
Re-allocation of unused quota2 Germany (Stephan Feck)
 Austria (Constantin Blaha)
Total29

Men's 10 m platform

For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

CompetitionPlacesQualified divers
FINA World Championships12 China (Qiu Bo)
 China (Chen Aisen)
 Great Britain (Tom Daley)
 Russia (Victor Minibaev)
 United States (David Boudia)
 Mexico (Iván García)
 Germany (Sascha Klein)
 Australia (Domonic Bedggood)
 Russia (Nikita Shleikher)
 Mexico (German Sanchez)
 France (Benjamin Auffret)
 Belarus (Vadim Kaptur)
2015 European Diving Championships1 Germany (Martin Wolfram)
Oceania Qualifying1 Australia (James Connor)
African Qualifying1 Egypt (Mohab El-Kordy)
2015 Asian Diving Cup1 Malaysia (Ooi Tze Liang)
2015 Pan American Games1not allocated – Mexico already qualified 2 divers
FINA Diving World CupUp to 18 Canada (Maxim Bouchard)
 United States (Steele Johnson)
 Venezuela (Jesús Liranzo)
 Colombia (Victor Ortega)
 Venezuela (Robert Páez)
 Brazil (Hugo Parisi)
 Puerto Rico (Rafael Quintero)
 Colombia (Sebastián Villa)
 South Korea (Woo Ha-ram)
Re-allocation of unused quota3 Italy (Maicol Verzotto)
 Canada (Vincent Riendeau)
 Belarus (Yauheni Karaliou)
Total28

Women's 3 m springboard

For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

CompetitionPlacesQualified divers
FINA World Championships12 China (Shi Tingmao)
 China (He Zi)
 Canada (Jennifer Abel)
 Australia (Esther Qin)
 Italy (Tania Cagnotto)
 Canada (Pamela Ware)
 Australia (Maddison Keeney)
 Great Britain (Rebecca Gallantree)
 Netherlands (Uschi Freitag)
 Ukraine (Anastasiya Nedobiga)
 Ukraine (Olena Fedorova)
 Malaysia (Ng Yan Yee)
2015 European Diving Championships1not allocated – Tania Cagnotto qualified above
Oceania Qualifying1not allocated – Australia already qualified 2 divers
African Qualifying1not allocated – NOC rejected[1]
2015 Asian Diving Cup1not allocated – China already qualified 2 divers
2015 Pan American Games1not allocated – Jennifer Abel qualified above
FINA Diving World CupUp to 18 Italy (Maria Marconi)
 Mexico (Dolores Hernandez)
 Malaysia (Cheong Jun Hoong)
 Brazil (Juliana Veloso)
 United States (Kassidy Cook)
 Germany (Tina Punzel)
 Great Britain (Grace Reid)
 Mexico (Melany Hernandez)
 Russia (Kristina Ilinykh)
Re-allocation of unused quota8 Germany (Nora Subschinski)
 United States (Abigail Johnston)
 Colombia (Diana Pineda)
 Russia (Nadezhda Bazhina)
 Egypt (Maha Amer)
 New Zealand (Elizabeth Cui)
 South Africa (Julia Vincent)
 Croatia (Marcela Marić)
Total29

^ 1. South Africa was awarded a quota place through the continental qualifier, but later declined, as SASCOC made an agreement on the Rio 2016 Olympics qualification criteria that the Continental Qualification route would not be considered.[3]

Women's 10 m platform

For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

CompetitionPlacesQualified divers
FINA World Championships12 China (Ren Qian)
 China (Si Yajie)
 North Korea (Kim Kuk-hyang)
 France (Laura Marino)
 North Korea (Kim Un-hyang)
 United States (Jessica Parratto)
 Great Britain (Tonia Couch)
 Malaysia (Pandelela Rinong)
 Ukraine (Iuliia Prokopchuk)
 Italy (Noemi Bátki)
 Australia (Melissa Wu)
 Canada (Meaghan Benfeito)
2015 European Diving Championships1not allocated – Iuliia Prokopchuk qualified above
Oceania Qualifying1 Australia (Brittany Broben)
African Qualifying1 Egypt (Maha Gouda)
2015 Asian Diving Cup1 Malaysia (Nur Dhabitah Sabri)
2015 Pan American Games1 Mexico (Paola Espinosa)
FINA Diving World CupUp to 18 Great Britain (Sarah Barrow)
 United States (Katrina Young)
 Mexico (Alejandra Orozco)
 Japan (Minami Itahashi)
 Germany (Maria Kurjo)
 Russia (Ekaterina Petukhova)
 Canada (Roseline Filion)
Re-allocation of unused quota5 Ukraine (Ganna Krasnoshlyk)
 Germany (Elena Wassen)
 Hungary (Villő Kormos)
 Brazil (Ingrid Oliveira)
 Russia (Yulia Timoshinina)
Total28

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