List of world champions in diving
The list of world diving champions lists all the medal winners in water diving at world swimming championships . The world championships were first held by FINA in 1973. Initially they took place at different intervals, but since 2001 they have been held regularly every two years. At the beginning there were two competitions for men and women, artificial jumping from the 3-meter board and diving from the 10-meter tower. In 1991 artificial jumping from the 1-meter board was added, in 1998 synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board and 10-meter tower, each for men and women. 2013 became cliff jumpingincluded in the program, where women jump from 20 m and men from 27 m. In 2015, mixed synchronized jumping from the 3-m board and 10-m tower as well as a mixed team competition were introduced, in which one man and one woman each jump from the 3-m board and 10-m tower and their individual jumps are added . This increased the number of competitions to a total of 15.
While US and Soviet athletes still dominated the first world championships, China was able to increasingly assume a dominant position in the following period. Today, Chinese athletes have won more than half of all world titles. Twice at a world championship all titles could be won by athletes from one country, in 1982 the USA won all four titles, in 2011 China even won all ten possible titles. The most successful athlete with seven gold medals is Qin Kai , the most successful athlete with ten gold medals and one silver medal is Guo Jingjing .
Competitions
Men
1 m board
3 m board
10 m tower
Synchronous 3 m board
Synchronous 10 m tower
Cliff jumping (27 meters)
Women
1 m board
3 m board
10 m tower
Synchronous 3 m board
Synchronous 10 m tower
Cliff jumping (20 meters)
Mixed
Synchronous 3 m board
Synchronous 10 m tower
Team competition (3-meter & 10-meter combination)
Medalist
The following tables show the ten most successful athletes at world championships.
- Placement: Indicates the order of the athletes. This is determined by the number of gold medals. If the number is the same, the silver medals are compared and then the bronze medals won.
- Name: gives the name of the athlete.
- Country: Name the country for which the athlete started.
- By: The year the athlete won the first medal.
- Until: The year in which the athlete won the last medal.
- Gold: states the number of gold medals won.
- Silver: states the number of silver medals won.
- Bronze: states the number of bronze medals won.
- Total: states the number of all medals won.
Men
| space | Surname | country | From | To | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Qin Kai |
 People's Republic of China
|
2007 | 2015 | 7th | 7th | ||
| 2. | Dmitri Sautin |
 Russia
|
1994 | 2007 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 3. | Hey Chong |
People's Republic of China
|
2005 | 2013 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7th |
| 4th | Greg Louganis |
 United States
|
1978 | 1986 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 5. | Wang Feng |
People's Republic of China
|
2001 | 2009 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 6th |
| Xie Siyi |
People's Republic of China
|
2015 | 2019 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 6th | |
| 7th | Qiu Bo |
People's Republic of China
|
2009 | 2015 | 4th | 1 | 5 | |
| 8th. | Alexandre Despatie |
 Canada
|
2001 | 2009 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8th |
| 9. | Cao Yuan |
Canada
|
2013 | 2019 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6th |
| 10. | Tian Liang |
People's Republic of China
|
1998 | 2003 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6th |
| Tom Daley |
 United Kingdom
|
2009 | 2019 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6th |
Women
| space | Surname | country | From | To | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Guo Jingjing |
People's Republic of China
|
1998 | 2009 | 10 | 1 | 11 | |
| 2. | Wu Minxia |
People's Republic of China
|
2001 | 2015 | 8th | 5 | 1 | 14th |
| 3. | Shi Tingmao |
People's Republic of China
|
2011 | 2019 | 8th | 1 | 9 | |
| 4th | Chen Ruolin |
People's Republic of China
|
2007 | 2015 | 6th | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 5. | Hey Zi |
People's Republic of China
|
2007 | 2015 | 4th | 2 | 1 | 7th |
| 6th | Si Yajie |
People's Republic of China
|
2013 | 2019 | 4th | 1 | 5 | |
| 7th | Wang Han |
People's Republic of China
|
2009 | 2019 | 3 | 4th | 2 | 9 |
| 8th. | Julija Pachalina |
Russia
|
1998 | 2009 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 9. | Irina Laschko |
 Soviet Union Russia Australia 
|
1991 | 2003 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 10. | Irina Kalinina |
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|
1973 | 1978 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Nations ranking
As of August 5, 2019
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
People's Republic of China
|
95 | 54 | 26th | 175 |
| 2. |
United States
|
16 | 18th | 18th | 52 |
| 3. |
Russia
|
13 | 20th | 18th | 51 |
| 4th |
Canada
|
6th | 14th | 10 | 30th |
| 5. |
Australia
|
6th | 7th | 10 | 23 |
| 6th |
United Kingdom
|
5 | 4th | 7th | 16 |
| 7th |
Soviet Union
|
3 | 7th | 6th | 16 |
| 8th. |
 Italy
|
3 | 5 | 11 | 19th |
| 9. |
 Germany (with German Democratic Republic ) |
2 | 12 | 20th | 34 |
| 10. |
 Ukraine
|
2 | 4th | 5 | 11 |
| 11. |
 Mexico
|
1 | 8th | 13 | 22nd |
| 12. |
 Malaysia
|
1 | 1 | 4th | 6th |
| 13. |
 North Korea
|
1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
| 14th |
 Sweden
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 15th |
 Colombia
|
1 | 1 | ||
| 15th |
 Netherlands
|
1 | 1 | ||
| 15th |
 Zimbabwe
|
1 | 1 | ||
| 15th |
 France
|
1 | 1 | ||
| 19th |
 Czechoslovakia
|
1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 19th |
 Cuba
|
1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 21st |
 Czech Republic
|
1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 22nd |
 Japan
|
2 | 2 | ||
| 22nd |
 Belarus
|
2 | 2 | ||
| 24. |
 Finland
|
1 | 1 | ||
| 24. |
 South Korea
|
1 | 1 |