Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Diving competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 10 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.

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Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Date	August 10 – 23, 2008
Competitors	125 from 30 nations
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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.

Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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)
	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

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

Participating countries

•  Australia (9)
•  Austria (3)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Brazil (4)
•  Canada (11)
•  China (9)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Cuba (5)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (9)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (2)
•  Malaysia (4)
•  Mexico (7)
•  North Korea (4)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Romania (2)
•  Russia (10)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Ukraine (8)
•  United States (12)
•  Venezuela (1)

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
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Men

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

Women

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

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