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]
| Nation | Synchronized diving | Individual diving | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Quotas | Athletes | |
 Australia | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | |||
 Belarus | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Brazil | X | X | X | X | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
 Canada | X | X | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | ||
 China | X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 |
 Colombia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
 Egypt | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
 France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
 Germany | X | X | X | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | |
 Great Britain | X | X | X | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 |
 Ireland | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Italy | X | X | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |||
 Jamaica | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Japan | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
 Malaysia | X | X | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | ||
 Mexico | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | |
 Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
 North Korea | X | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
 Puerto Rico | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Russia | X | X | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | ||
 South Korea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
 Ukraine | X | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||
 United States | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | |
 Venezuela | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Total: 24 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 27 | 25 | 22 | 23 | 130 | 109 |
Timeline
| Event | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 European Diving Championships | June 9–14, 2015 | Rostock |
| 2015 Pan American Games | July 10–13, 2015 | Toronto |
| 2015 World Aquatics Championships | July 24 – August 9, 2015 | Kazan |
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | September 4–6, 2015 | Kuala Lumpur |
| Oceania Championships | December 12–13, 2015 | Melbourne |
| 2016 FINA Diving World Cup | February 19–24, 2016 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | June 16–24, 2016 | — |
Synchronized diving
Men's 3 m synchronized springboard
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Russia Great Britain |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Germany Mexico Italy United States |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 |
Men's 10 m synchronized platform
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Mexico Russia |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Germany Great Britain United States Ukraine |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 |
Women's 3 m synchronized springboard
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Canada Australia |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Italy Malaysia Great Britain Germany |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 |
Women's 10 m synchronized platform
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Canada North Korea |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Malaysia Great Britain United States Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 |
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.
Men's 10 m platform
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| Competition | Places | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (Qiu Bo) China (Yang Jian) Great Britain (Tom Daley) Russia (Victor Minibaev) United States (David Boudia) Mexico (Iván García) Germany (Sascha Klein) Australia (Domonic Bedggood) Russia (Nikita Shleikher) Mexico (José Ruvalcaba) France (Benjamin Auffret) Belarus (Vadim Kaptur) |
| 2015 European Diving Championships | 1 | Germany (Martin Wolfram) |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (James Connor) |
| African Qualifying | 1 | Egypt (Youssef Ezzat) |
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Ooi Tze Liang) |
| 2015 Pan American Games | 1 | not allocated – Mexico already qualified 2 divers |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Canada (Maxim Bouchard) United States (David Dinsmore) 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 quota | 1 | |
| Total | 25 |
Women's 3 m springboard
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
^ 1. South Africa has 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.[2]
Women's 10 m platform
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| Competition | Places | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (Ren Qian) China (Si Yajie) North Korea (Kim Kuk-hyang) France (Laura Marino) North Korea (Song Nam-hyang) United States (Amy Cozad) Great Britain (Tonia Couch) Malaysia (Pandelela Rinong) Ukraine (Iuliia Prokopchuk) Italy (Noemi Bátki) Australia (Melissa Wu) Canada (Meaghan Benfeito) |
| 2015 European Diving Championships | 1 | not allocated – Iuliia Prokopchuk qualified above |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Brittany Broben) |
| African Qualifying | 1 | Egypt (Maha Abdelsalam) |
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) |
| 2015 Pan American Games | 1 | Mexico (Paola Espinosa) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Great Britain (Georgia Ward) United States (Samantha Bromberg) Japan (Nana Sasaki) Mexico (Alejandra Orozco) Japan (Minami Itahashi) Germany (Maria Kurjo) Russia (Ekaterina Petukhova) Canada (Roseline Filion) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | ||
| Total | 25 |
- Athletes listed in brackets have not qualified, rather have earned a quota spot for their nation.
References
- 1 2 "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Diving" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ↑ "SASCOC will not be considered continental qualification" (PDF). SASCOC. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
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