2008 Summer Olympics / Diving

Diving at the XXIX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Beijing
Competition venue	National swimming center
Nations	29
Athletes	140 (73 women, 67 men)
date	10-23 August 2008
decisions	8th
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At the XXIX. 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing found eight contests Diving place, four each for women and men. The venue was the National Swimming Center in Olympic Green .

Balance sheet

The diving area in the National Swimming Center

Medal table

space	country				total
1	China	7th	1	3	11
2	Australia	1	1	-	2
3	Russia	-	3	2	5
4th	Canada	-	2	-	2
5	Germany	-	1	1	2
6th	Mexico	-	-	1	1
	Ukraine	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Hey Chong	Alexandre Despatie	Qin Kai
Diving 10 m	Matthew Mitcham	Zhou Lüxin	Gleb Galperin
Synchronized jumping 3 m	Qin Kai Wang Feng	Yuri Kunakov Dmitri Sautin	Illja Kwascha Olexij Pryhorow
Synchronized jumping 10 m	Huo Liang Lin Yue	Patrick Hausding Sascha Klein	Dmitri Dobroskok Gleb Galperin

Women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Guo Jingjing	Julija Pachalina	Wu Minxia
Diving 10 m	Chen Ruolin	Émilie Heymans	Wang Xin
Synchronized jumping 3 m	Guo Jingjing Wu Minxia	Yulia Pachalina Anastasija Posdnyakova	Heike Fischer Ditte Kotzian
Synchronized jumping 10 m	Chen Ruolin Wang Xin	Briony Cole Melissa Wu	Paola Espinosa Tatiana Ortiz

Results men

Jump 3 m

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Diving - Artistic Jumping Individual (Men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Hey Chong	572.90
2	CAN	Alexandre Despatie	536.65
3	CHN	Qin Kai	530.10
4th	RUS	Dmitri Sautin	512.65
5	GER	Pavlo Rozenberg	485.60
6th	United States	Troy Dumais	472.50
7th	MEX	Yahel Castillo	462.10
8th	GER	Patrick Hausding	462.05

The medal winners in the men's 3-meter jump

Date: August 18 and 19, 2008
29 participants from 20 countries

Diving 10 m

→ Main article : 2008 Summer Olympics / Diving - Individual high diving (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	OUT	Matthew Mitcham	537.95
2	CHN	Zhou Lüxin	533.15
3	RUS	Gleb Galperin	525.80
4th	CHN	Huo Liang	508.40
5	CUB	José Antonio Guerra	507.15
6th	OUT	Mathew helmet	467.70
7th	GBR	Thomas Daley	463.55
8th	MEX	Rommel Pacheco	460.20

Date: August 22nd and 23rd, 2008
30 participants from 18 countries

Synchronized jumping 3 m

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Diving - artificial jumping synchronized (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Qin Kai Wang Feng	469.08
2	RUS	Yuri Kunakov Dmitri Sautin	421.98
3	UKR	Illja Kwascha Olexij Pryhorow	415.05
4th	United States	Christopher Colwill Jevon Tarantino	410.73
5	CAN	Alexandre Despatie Arturo Miranda	409.29
6th	GER	Sascha Klein Pavlo Rozenberg	402.84
7th	GBR	Nick Robinson-Baker Ben Swain	402.36
8th	OUT	Robert Newbery Scott Robertson	393.60

Date: August 13, 2008
16 participants from 8 countries

Synchronized jumping 10 m

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Diving - Tower diving synchronous (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Huo Liang Lin Yue	468.18
2	GER	Patrick Hausding Sascha Klein	450.42
3	RUS	Dmitri Dobroskok Gleb Galperin	445.26
4th	OUT	Mathew Helm Robert Newbery	444.84
5	United States	David Boudia Thomas Finchum	440.64
6th	COL	Víctor Ortega Juan Urán	423.66
7th	CUB	José Antonio Guerra Erick Fornaris	409.38
8th	GBR	Blake Aldridge Thomas Daley	408.48

Date: August 11, 2008
16 participants from 8 countries

Results women

Jump 3 m

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Diving - Individual jumping (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Guo Jingjing	415.35
2	RUS	Julija Pachalina	398.60
3	CHN	Wu Minxia	389.85
4th	CAN	Blythe Hartley	374.60
5	ITA	Tania Cagnotto	349.20
6th	SWE	Anna Lindberg	342.15
7th	OUT	Sharleen Stratton	331.00
8th	United States	Nancilea Foster	316.70

Date: August 15th to 17th, 2008
30 participants from 19 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Chen Ruolin	447.70
2	CAN	Émilie Heymans	437.05
3	CHN	Wang Xin	429.90
4th	MEX	Paola Espinosa	380.95
5	MEX	Tatiana Ortiz	343.60
6th	OUT	Melissa Wu	338.15
7th	CAN	Marie-Ève ​​Marleau	332.10
8th	GBR	Tonia couch	328.70

Date: August 20th and 21st, 2008
30 participants from 19 countries

Synchronized jumping 3 m

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Diving - Artistic jumping synchronized (women)

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	CHN	Guo Jingjing Wu Minxia	343.50
2	RUS	Yulia Pachalina Anastasija Posdnyakova	323.61
3	GER	Heike Fischer Ditte Kotzian	318.90
4th	United States	Kelci Bryant Ariel Rittenhouse	314.40
5	OUT	Briony Cole Sharleen Stratton	311.34
6th	ITA	Noemi Batki Francesca Dallapé	296.70
7th	UKR	Hanna Pysmenska Marija Voloschtschenko	293.10
8th	GBR	Tandi Gerrard Hayley Sage	278.25

Date: August 10, 2008
16 participants from 8 countries

Synchronized jumping 10 m

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Diving - diving synchronized (women)

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	CHN	Chen Ruolin Wang Xin	363.54
2	OUT	Briony Cole Melissa Wu	335.16
3	MEX	Paola Espinosa Tatiana Ortiz	330.06
4th	GER	Annett Gamm Nora Subschinski	310.29
5	United States	Mary Beth Dunnichay Haley Ishimatsu	309.12
6th	PRK	Choe Kum-hui Kim Un-hyang	308.10
7th	CAN	Meaghan Benfeito Roseline Filion	305.91
8th	GBR	Tonia Couch Stacie Powell	303.48

Date: August 12, 2008
16 participants from 8 countries

qualification

Each country was allowed to send a maximum of two participants in the individual competitions as well as a team of two in each of the synchronous competitions. A maximum of 34 individual starters and 8 synchronous teams per discipline were permitted. Quota places for the respective NOK were achieved in each of the four individual disciplines by the twelve finalists of the 12th Swimming World Championships from March 17 to April 1, 2007 in Melbourne and the 18 semi-finalists of the World Cup from February 19 to 24, 2008 in Beijing. The remaining starting places, the number of which depended on the extent to which the quota starters qualified by the World Cup and the World Cup overlap, were determined after the World Cup.

The hosts China, the respective medal winners of the 2007 World Cup (if the Chinese were among them, the fourth-placed team moved up), as well as the four best of the remaining teams at the 2008 World Cup were qualified for the synchronized competitions.

Qualified teams in synchronized jumping

3 meters synchronous men:

• 1st People's Republic of China (as host and world champion 2007) 
• 2nd Canada (Vice World Champion 2007) 
• 3. Germany (bronze medalist World Cup 2007) 
• 4th United States (fourth place 2007 World Cup) 
• 5th Russia (World Cup 2008) 
• 6th United Kingdom (World Cup 2008) 
• 7th Ukraine (World Cup 2008) 
• 8th Australia (World Cup 2008) 

10 meters synchronous men:

• 1st People's Republic of China (as host and world champion 2007) 
• 2. Russia (Vice World Champion 2007) 
• 3rd United States (bronze medalist World Cup 2007) 
• 4. Cuba (fourth placed World Cup 2007) 
• 5th Germany (World Cup 2008) 
• 6th United Kingdom (World Cup 2008) 
• 7th Australia (World Cup 2008) 
• 8th Colombia (World Cup 2008) 

3 meters synchronous women:

• 1st People's Republic of China (as host and world champion 2007) 
• 2. Germany (Vice World Champion 2007) 
• 3rd Australia (bronze medalist World Cup 2007) 
• 4. Ukraine (fourth placed 2007 World Cup) 
• 5th Russia (World Cup 2008) 
• 6th United States (World Cup 2008) 
• 7th Italy (World Cup 2008) 
• 8th United Kingdom (World Cup 2008) 

10 meters synchronous women:

• 1st People's Republic of China (as host and world champion 2007) 
• 2. Australia (Vice World Champion 2007) 
• 3. Germany (bronze medalist World Cup 2007) 
• 4. Canada (fourth placed World Cup 2007) 
• 5th North Korea (World Cup 2008) 
• 6th Mexico (World Cup 2008) 
• 7th United Kingdom (World Cup 2008) 
• 8th United States (World Cup 2008) 

Web links

Commons : Diving in the Sea at the 2008 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Diving at the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 2008 Summer Olympics (PDF, 25.9 MB)