Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Diving at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Date	August 10 – 23
Competitors	125 from 30 nations

Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women
Synchronized 3 m springboard		men		women
Synchronized 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)

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
FINA World Championships	March 17 - April 1, 2007	Melbourne	12	3
FINA Diving World Cup	February 19–25, 2008	Beijing	22	4
Host nation	-	-	-	China
TOTAL			34	8

Medal summary

Medal table

Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 Official Website.^[3]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	7	1	3	11
2	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
3	Russia (RUS)	0	3	2	5
4	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
5	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
6	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	He Chong  China	Alexandre Despatie  Canada	Qin Kai  China
10 metre platform	Matthew Mitcham  Australia	Zhou Lüxin  China	Gleb Galperin  Russia
Synchronized 3 metre springboard	Wang Feng and Qin Kai  China	Dmitri Sautin and Yuriy Kunakov  Russia	Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov  Ukraine
Synchronized 10 metre platform	Lin Yue and Huo Liang  China	Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein  Germany	Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok  Russia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Guo Jingjing  China	Yuliya Pakhalina  Russia	Wu Minxia  China
10 metre platform	Chen Ruolin  China	Émilie Heymans  Canada	Wang Xin  China
Synchronized 3 metre springboard	Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia  China	Yuliya Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova  Russia	Ditte Kotzian and Heike Fischer  Germany
Synchronized 10 metre platform	Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin  China	Briony Cole and Melissa Wu  Australia	Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz  Mexico

Qualification summary

Nation	Synchronized Diving				Individual Diving				Total
	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
Australia	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	12	9
Austria					1		1	1	3	3
Belarus					1	2	1		4	4
Brazil					1	2		1	4	4
Canada	1			1	2	2	2	2	10	10
China	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	12	10
Colombia		1			1	1	1		4	3
Cuba		1			2	2			5	5
Finland					1				1	1
France								2	2	2
Germany	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	12	14
Great Britain	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	10	10
Greece								1	1	1
Hungary							2		2	2
Italy			1		2	1	2	2	8	8
Japan					1			1	2	2
Malaysia						1	2	1	4	4
Mexico				1	1	2	2	2	8	7
North Korea				1		1		2	4	3
Philippines						1	1		2	2
Romania						1		1	2	2
Russia	1	1	1		2	2	2	1	10	10
South Africa							1		1	1
South Korea					1				1	1
Spain					1		1		2	2
Sweden							1	1	2	2
Ukraine	1		1		2	2	2	1	9	9
United States	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	12	12
Venezuela					1				1	1
Total: 29 NOCs	8	8	8	8	29	30	30	29	150	136

See also

• Diving at the 2007 Pan American Games

References

External links

• Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
• Federation Internationale de Natation

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