Diving World Cup 2008

The venue was the National Swimming Center in Beijing

The FINA Diving World Cup in 2008 was one of the FINA organized series of competitions in water jump that from 19 to 24 February, 2008. Beijing took place. The venue was the National Swimming Center . A total of eight competitions were held, one individual and one synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board and from the 10-meter tower for women and men.

The World Cup was also the most important qualifying competition for the 2008 Olympic Games and also served as a pre-Olympic test competition. The 18 semi-finalists in the individual disciplines and the four best synchronized pairs in the synchronous disciplines received a quota place, unless they had already won it at the 2007 World Championships .

The competitions were once again dominated by the Chinese athletes who won seven of the eight possible titles. Surprisingly, Sascha Klein won the men's high diving. In total, athletes from eight countries were able to win medals.

Time schedule

The World Cup schedule was designed as follows.

Tuesday February 19, 2008

• Pre-fight and final 3 meter synchronous jumping men
• Pre-fight 10 meter high diving women

Wednesday February 20, 2008

• Semi-finals and final 10 meter high diving women
• Pre-fight 3 meter jumping men

Thursday February 21, 2008

• Semi-finals and final 3 meter jumping men
• Preliminary competition and final 10 meter synchronized jumping women

Friday February 22, 2008

• Pre-fight and final 10 meter synchronized jumping men
• Pre-fight 3 meter jumping women

Saturday February 23, 2008

• Semi-finals and final 3 meter jumping women
• Pre-fight 10 meter high diving men

Sunday February 24, 2008

• Semi-finals and finals 10 meter high diving men
• Preliminary and final 3 meter synchronized jumping women

Attendees

Diver divers from 51 countries took part. A total of 296 athletes were registered.

Participating Nations
Egypt Armenia Azerbaijan Australia Bermuda Brazil People's Republic of China Chinese Taipei	Germany Ecuador Finland France Georgia Greece Great Britain HKG India	Iran Italy Japan Canada Kazakhstan Colombia Croatia Cuba	Lithuania Macau Malaysia North Macedonia Mexico New Zealand Netherlands North Korea	Norway Austria Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Switzerland	Sweden Serbia Spain South Africa South Korea Ukraine Hungary USA	Venezuela Vietnam Belarus

Results

Women

3-meter jumping

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Wu Minxia	391.35
2	People's Republic of China	Guo Jingjing	387.75
3	Australia	Sharleen Stratton	350.70
4th	United States	Christina Loukas	350.35
5	Mexico	Laura Sánchez	345.85
6th	Canada	Blythe Hartley	345.75
7th	Australia	Chantelle Newbery	331.95
8th	Sweden	Anna Lindberg	322.20
9	Ukraine	Olena Fedorova	308.35
10	Hungary	Nóra Barta	306.00
11	Canada	Jennifer Abel	292.85
12	United States	Kelci Bryant	289.85

Preliminary match on February 22, 2012, semi-finals and final on February 23, 2012.

10 meter high diving

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Chen Ruolin	449.35
2	People's Republic of China	Wang Xin	405.00
3	Mexico	Paola Espinosa	396.35
4th	Canada	Émilie Heymans	384.50
5	Australia	Loudy Wiggins	367.35
6th	Japan	Mai Nakagawa	342.80
7th	Mexico	Tatiana Ortiz	342.80
8th	United States	Haley Ishimatsu	321.15
9	Great Britain	Stacie Powell	319.75
10	Ukraine	Yulia Prokopchuk	316.35
11	Australia	Melissa Wu	310.70
12	United States	Laura Wilkinson	306.00

Preliminary match on February 19, 2012, semi-finals and final on February 20, 2012.

3-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Wu Minxia Guo Jingjing	362.10
2	Russia	Anastassija Posdnyakova Julija Pachalina	329.61
3	United States	Kelci Bryant Ariel Rittenhouse	322.50
4th	Ukraine	Olena Fedorova Alewtina Korolyova	314.28
5	Italy	Francesca Dallapé Noemi Bátki	312.60
6th	Great Britain	Hayley Sage Tandi Gerrard	308.79
7th	Mexico	Paola Espinosa Laura Sánchez	308.10
8th	Australia	Briony Cole Sharleen Stratton	308.04
9	Germany	Katja Dieckow Nora Subschinski	298.80
10	Canada	Blythe Hartley Melanie Rinaldi	293.10
11	Sweden	Anna Lindberg Martina Andrén	283.20
12	Malaysia	Mun Yee Leong Elizabeth Jimie	280.80

Preliminary match and final on February 24, 2012.

10-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Wang Xin Chen Ruolin	375.66
2	Canada	Marie-Ève ​​Marleau Émilie Heymans	340.05
3	Australia	Melissa Wu Briony Cole	334.80
4th	Germany	Nora Subschinski Annett Gamm	324.87
5	Mexico	Paola Espinosa Tatiana Ortiz	321.48
6th	North Korea	Choe Kum-hui Hong In-sun	315.54
7th	Great Britain	Monique McCarroll Sarah Barrow	313.02
8th	United States	Haley Ishimatsu Mary Beth Dunnichay	309.06
9	Ukraine	Alina Chaplenko Yulia Prokopchuk	305.22
9	Italy	Noemi Bátki Tania Cagnotto	305.22
11	Japan	Mai Nakagawa Misako Yamashita	304.86
12	Russia	Julija Koltunova Natalja Goncharova	298.38

Preliminary match and final on February 21, 2012.

Men

3-meter jumping

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Hey Chong	530.30
2	People's Republic of China	Qin Kai	515.30
3	Mexico	Yahel Castillo	515.00
4th	United States	Troy Dumais	500.85
5	Canada	Alexandre Despatie	496.10
6th	Germany	Pavlo Rozenberg	481.05
7th	Ukraine	Illja Kwascha	480.55
8th	United States	Christopher Colwill	463.85
9	Japan	Ken Terauchi	458.70
10	Germany	Andreas Wels	454.95
11	Cuba	Jorge Betancourt	452.50
12	Colombia	Juan Urán	446.70

Preliminary match on February 20, 2012, semi-finals and final on February 21, 2012.

10 meter high diving

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	Germany	Sascha Klein	566.85
2	People's Republic of China	Zhou Lüxin	543.30
3	United States	David Boudia	526.65
4th	People's Republic of China	Lin Yue	521.05
5	Australia	Matthew Mitcham	510.35
6th	Colombia	Juan Urán	490.00
7th	Great Britain	Thomas Daley	480.40
8th	Great Britain	Peter Waterfield	465.30
9	Ukraine	Anton Sakharov	454.80
10	Ukraine	Kostjantyn Miljaev	453.50
11	Cuba	José Antonio Guerra	400.25
12	Cuba	Jeinkler Aguirre	394.15

Preliminary match on February 23, 2012, semi-finals and final on February 24, 2012.

3-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Wang Feng Qin Kai	462.12
2	Russia	Yuri Kunakov Dmitri Sautin	418.65
3	Canada	Alexandre Despatie Arturo Miranda	416.94
4th	Great Britain	Ben Swain Nick Robinson-Baker	414.87
5	Ukraine	Dmytro Lysenko Anton Sakharov	407.40
6th	United States	Jevon Tarantino Christopher Colwill	404.64
7th	Australia	Robert Newbery Scott Robertson	404.58
8th	Germany	Andreas Wels Tobias Schellenberg	400.59
9	Cuba	Jorge Betancourt Erick Fornaris	392.91
10	Malaysia	Yeoh Ken Nee Roslan Horsarisham	390.15
11	Italy	Tommaso Marconi Nicola Marconi	388.05
12	Mexico	Yahel Castillo Luís Huerta	374.91

Preliminary match and final on February 19, 2012.

10-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Lin Yue Huo Liang	482.46
2	Germany	Sascha Klein Patrick Hausding	466.74
3	Great Britain	Thomas Daley Blake Aldridge	446.07
4th	Russia	Konstantin Khanbekow Oleg Wikulow	441.90
5	Australia	Mathew Helm Robert Newbery	432.96
6th	United States	David Boudia Thomas Finchum	430.62
7th	Colombia	Víctor Ortega Juan Urán	419.70
8th	Belarus	Vadim Kaptur Alexander Varlamov	418.92
9	Cuba	José Antonio Guerra Erick Fornaris	397.92
10	Mexico	Rommel Pacheco Omar Ojeda	393.06
11	Italy	Michele Benedetti Francesco Dell'Uomo	390.24
12	Ukraine	Oleksandr Horschkowosow Dmitry Mezhensky	373.14

Preliminary match and final on February 22, 2012.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	People's Republic of China	7th	4th	-	11
2	Germany	1	1	-	2
3	Russia	-	2	-	2
4th	Canada	-	1	1	2
5	Australia	-	-	2	2
	Mexico	-	-	2	2
	United States	-	-	2	2
8th	Great Britain	-	-	1	1
total		8th	8th	8th	24

Web links

• Diving World Cup on the official website of FINA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Good luck Beijing FINA Diving World Cup to open on Tuesday. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Womens 3m Springboard Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
3. ^ Womens 10m Platform Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Womens 3m Synchro Springboard Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Womens 10m Synchro Platform Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Mens 3m Springboard Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Mens 10m Platform Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Mens 3m Synchro Springboard Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Mens 10m Synchro Platform Final. Retrieved May 7, 2012 .