2016 Summer Olympics / Diving

Diving at the XXXI. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Parque Aquático Maria Lenk
Nations	29
Athletes	136 (68 women, 68 men)
date	7-20 August 2016
decisions	8th
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At the XXXI. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , eight water diving competitions were held, four each for women and men. The venue was the Parque Aquático Maria Lenk in the Barra da Tijuca district .

Balance sheet

Diving tower in Parque Aquático Maria Lenk

Medal table

space	country				total
1	China	7th	2	1	10
2	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
3	United States	-	2	1	3
4th	Italy	-	1	1	2
5	Malaysia	-	1	-	1
	Mexico	-	1	-	1
7th	Canada	-	-	2	2
8th	Australia	-	-	1	1
	Germany	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Cao Yuan	Jack Laugher	Patrick Hausding
Diving 10 m	Chen Aisen	Germán Sánchez	David Boudia
Synchronized jumping 3 m	Jack Laugher Christopher Mears	Sam Dorman Michael Hixon	Cao Yuan Qin Kai
Synchronized jumping 10 m	Chen Aisen Lin Yue	David Boudia Steele Johnson	Thomas Daley Daniel Goodfellow

Women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Shi Tingmao	Hey Zi	Tania Cagnotto
Diving 10 m	Ren Qian	Si Yajie	Meaghan Benfeito
Synchronized jumping 3 m	Shi Tingmao Wu Minxia	Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallapé	Maddison Keeney Anabelle Smith
Synchronized jumping 10 m	Chen Ruolin Liu Huixia	Jun Hoong Cheong Pandelela Rinong Pamg	Meaghan Benfeito Roseline Filion

Time schedule

Competitions	August
Women	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th
Jump 3 m						VK	HF
Diving 10 m											VK
Synchronized jumping 3 m
Synchronized jumping 10 m
Men	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th
Jump 3 m									VK
Diving 10 m													VK
Synchronized jumping 3 m
Synchronized jumping 10 m

VK

Pre-fight

HF

Semifinals

(Semifinals and) finals

Results men

Jump 3 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympic Games / Diving - Individual jumping (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Cao Yuan	547.60
2	GBR	Jack Laugher	523.85
3	GER	Patrick Hausding	498.90
4th	RUS	Yevgeny Kuznetsov	481.35
5	United States	Kristian Ipsen	475.80
6th	UKR	Illja Kwascha	475.10
7th	MEX	Rommel Pacheco	451.20
8th	IRL	Oliver Dingley	442.90

Date: August 15 and 16, 2016
29 participants from 20 countries

Diving 10 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Diving - Individual high diving (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Chen Aisen	585.30
2	MEX	Germán Sánchez	532.70
3	United States	David Boudia	525.25
4th	FRA	Benjamin Auffret	507.35
5	GER	Martin Wolfram	492.90
6th	CHN	Qiu Bo	488.20
7th	PURE	Rafael Quintero	485.35
8th	RUS	Viktor Minibayev	481.60

Date: August 19 and 20, 2016
28 participants from 18 countries

Synchronized jumping 3 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Diving - artificial jumping synchronized (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GBR	Jack Laugher Christopher Mears	454.32
2	United States	Sam Dorman Michael Hixon	450.21
3	CHN	Cao Yuan Qin Kai	443.70
4th	GER	Stephan Feck Patrick Hausding	410.10
5	MEX	Jahir Ocampo Rommel Pacheco	405.30
6th	ITA	Andrea Chiarabini Giovanni Tocci	395.19
7th	RUS	Yevgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Sakharov	385.17
8th	BRA	Ian Matos Luiz Felipe Outerelo	332.61

Date: August 10, 2016
16 participants from 8 countries

Synchronized jumping 10 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Diving - Tower diving synchronized (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Chen Aisen Lin Yue	496.98
2	United States	David Boudia Steele Johnson	457.11
3	GBR	Thomas Daley Daniel Goodfellow	444.45
4th	GER	Patrick Hausding Sascha Klein	438.42
5	MEX	Iván García Germán Sánchez	423.30
6th	UKR	Maksym Dolhow Oleksandr Horschkowosow	421.98
7th	RUS	Viktor Minibayev Nikita Schleicher	417.57
8th	BRA	Jackson Rondinelli Hugo Parisi	368.52

Date: August 8, 2016
16 participants from 8 countries

Results women

Jump 3 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Diving - Individual jumping (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Shi Tingmao	406.05
2	CHN	Hey Zi	387.90
3	ITA	Tania Cagnotto	372.80
4th	CAN	Jennifer Abel	367.25
5	OUT	Maddison Keeney	349.65
6th	OUT	Esther Qin	344.10
7th	CAN	Pamela goods	323.15
8th	GBR	Grace Reid	318.60

Date: August 12-14, 2016
29 participants from 18 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Ren Qian	439.25
2	CHN	Si Yajie	419.40
3	CAN	Meaghan Benfeito	389.20
4th	MEX	Paola Espinosa	377.10
5	OUT	Melissa Wu	368.30
6th	CAN	Roseline Filion	367.95
7th	PRK	Kim Un-hyang	357.90
8th	JPN	Minami Itahashi	356.60

Date: August 17th and 18th, 2016
28 participants from 19 countries

Synchronized jumping 3 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Diving - Artistic jumping synchronized (women)

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	CHN	Shi Tingmao Wu Minxia	345.60
2	ITA	Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallapé	313.83
3	OUT	Maddison Keeney Anabelle Smith	299.19
4th	CAN	Jennifer Abel Pamela Ware	298.32
5	MAS	Jun Hoong Cheong Nur Dhabitah Sabri	293.40
6th	GBR	Alicia Blagg Rebecca Gallantree	292.83
7th	GER	Tina Punzel Nora Subschinski	284.25
8th	BRA	Tammy Takagi Juliana Veloso	258.75

Date: August 7, 2016
16 participants from 8 countries

Synchronized jumping 10 m

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Diving - synchronized high diving (women)

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	CHN	Chen Ruolin Liu Huixia	354.00
2	MAS	Jun Hoong Cheong Pandelela Rinong Pamg	344.34
3	CAN	Meaghan Benfeito Roseline Filion	336.18
4th	PRK	Kim Kuk-hyang Kim Mi-rae	322.44
5	GBR	Tonia Couch Lois Toulson	319.44
6th	MEX	Paola Espinosa Alejandra Orozco	304.08
7th	United States	Amelia Cozad Jessica Parratto	301.02
8th	BRA	Ingrid de Oliveira Giovanna Pedroso	280.98

Date: August 9, 2016
16 participants from 8 countries

qualification

Qualification criteria

Each nation was allowed to have a maximum of two athletes in the individual competitions and one pair in the synchronous competitions, i.e. a total of 16 athletes. A total of up to 34 single starters or eight synchronous pairs were allowed per competition.

The following qualification criteria applied to both women and men: Quota places for the respective NOK were achieved in each of the four individual disciplines by the twelve finalists of the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan , the five winners of the 2015 continental championships and up to 18 semi-finalists of the World Cup from 19 to February 24, 2016 in Rio. Possibly still free quota places, the number of which depended on the extent to which the athletes qualified by the World Championships, the Continental Championships and the World Cup overlapped, were awarded to those athletes who placed 19th in the World Cup.

Qualified nations

Egypt  Australia  Brazil  China  Germany  France  Great Britain  Ireland  Italy  Jamaica

Japan  Canada  Colombia  Croatia  Malaysia  Mexico  Netherlands  New Zealand  North Korea  Austria

Puerto Rico  Russia  South Africa  South Korea  Ukraine  Hungary  Venezuela  United States  Belarus

Web links

Commons : Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Diving at the Olympic Summer Games 2016 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ QUALIFICATION SYSTEM - GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD - RIO 2016. (PDF) FINA , accessed on August 6, 2016 (English, PDF; 205 kB).