Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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)

Day	Time	Event
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)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008	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)
Thursday, August 21, 2008	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)
Saturday, August 23, 2008	20:00–21:40	10m Platform Men (Final)

Qualifying criteria

Main article: Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

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
6	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Men

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

Women

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

Qualification summary

Nation	Synchronized Diving				Individual Diving				Total
Nation	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

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. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
↑ "Diving Medal Standings". Retrieved 2008-08-17.

External links

Events¹ at the 2008 Summer Olympics (Beijing)

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1. The Organizing Committee were given special dispensation by the IOC to run a Wushu competition in parallel to, but not as part of, the Games schedule.

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