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Diving
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Aquatics Centre
DateAugust 10 – 23
Competitors125 from 30 nations
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Diving at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Individual
3 m springboardmenwomen
10 m platformmenwomen
Synchronized
3 m springboardmenwomen
10 m platformmenwomen

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)
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 Australia Melbourne 12 3
FINA Diving World Cup February 19–25, 2008 China Beijing 22 4
Host nation - - - China China
TOTAL 34 8

Medal summary

Medal table

Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 Official Website.[3]

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
details 		He Chong
 China 		Alexandre Despatie
 Canada 		Qin Kai
 China
10 metre platform
details 		Matthew Mitcham
 Australia 		Zhou Lüxin
 China 		Gleb Galperin
 Russia
Synchronized
3 metre springboard
details 		Wang Feng
and Qin Kai
 China 		Dmitri Sautin
and Yuriy Kunakov
 Russia 		Illya Kvasha
and Oleksiy Prygorov
 Ukraine
Synchronized
10 metre platform
details 		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
details 		Guo Jingjing
 China 		Yuliya Pakhalina
 Russia 		Wu Minxia
 China
10 metre platform
details 		Chen Ruolin
 China 		Émilie Heymans
 Canada 		Wang Xin
 China
Synchronized
3 metre springboard
details 		Guo Jingjing
and Wu Minxia
 China 		Yuliya Pakhalina
and Anastasia Pozdnyakova
 Russia 		Ditte Kotzian
and Heike Fischer
 Germany
Synchronized
10 metre platform
details 		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

References

  1. ^ "Olympic Diving Schedule". FINA. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Diving Medal Standings". Retrieved 2008-08-17.
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