World Cup in diving 2012

The FINA Diving World Cup in 2012 was one of the FINA organized series of competitions in water jump that from 20 to 26 February, 2012. London took place. The venue was the Aquatics 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 pre-Olympic test competition and the most important qualifying competition for the 2012 Olympic Games . In the individual disciplines, all 18 semi-finalists won an Olympic quota for their NOK , unless they had already qualified through the World Cup . In the synchronous disciplines, the four best placed, not yet qualified couples received a quota place.

The competitions were again dominated by the Chinese athletes, who won all eight titles and eleven of twelve possible medals. In total, jumpers from eight countries were able to win medals. The German team was represented in six finals and won a bronze medal in the 10-meter synchronized jumping through Sascha Klein and Patrick Hausding . The German team achieved one quota place each in the individual competitions, but missed the two possible quota places in the synchronized competitions. Athletes from Austria and Switzerland missed the Olympic quota places.

Time schedule

The World Cup schedule was designed as follows.

Monday February 20, 2012

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

Tuesday February 21, 2012

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

Wednesday February 22, 2012

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

Thursday February 23, 2012

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

Friday February 24, 2012

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

Saturday 25th February 2012

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

Sunday February 26, 2012

• Diveoff 3 meter jumping women and men
• Diveoff 10 meter high diving women and men

Attendees

Diver divers from 41 countries took part. A total of 234 athletes were registered, 109 women and 125 men.

Participating nations with number of athletes (women / men)
Azerbaijan (0/1) Australia (6/3) Brazil (2/3) People's Republic of China (6/8) Germany (7/5) Finland (2/1) France (3/2)	Georgia (0/2) Greece (0/3) Great Britain (7/6) Hong Kong (1/1) India (0/2) Iran (0/1) Italy (4/7)	Japan (4/4) Canada (5/5) Kazakhstan (3/1) Colombia (0/4) Croatia (2/4) Cuba (1/3) Lithuania (0/2)	Malaysia (5/6) Mexico (6/5) Netherlands (2/2) North Korea (2/2) Norway (0/4) Austria (2/2) Poland (0/1)	Puerto Rico (2/1) Romania (3/0) Russia (7/5) Switzerland (0/2) Sweden (1/3) Serbia (1/0) Spain (2/1)	South Korea (2/4) Ukraine (6/6) Hungary (4/1) USA (8/6) Venezuela (3/4) Belarus (0/2)

Results

Women

3-meter jumping

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Wu Minxia	368.95
2	People's Republic of China	Hey Zi	365.40
3	Italy	Tania Cagnotto	345.75
4th	Canada	Pamela goods	341.30
5	Sweden	Anna Lindberg	341.25
6th	Mexico	Laura Sánchez	329.10
7th	United States	Christina Loukas	327.65
8th	United States	Cassidy pitcher	326.10
9	Great Britain	Rebecca Gallantree	315.90
10	Canada	Émilie Heymans	307.35
11	Ukraine	Olena Fedorova	305.30
12	Venezuela	Jocelyn Castillo	288.90

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

10 meter high diving

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Chen Ruolin	405.25
2	People's Republic of China	Hu Yadan	397.10
3	Russia	Julia Koltunova	350.25
4th	Canada	Roseline Filion	348.90
5	Mexico	Carolina Mendoza	346.85
6th	Germany	Christin Steuer	346.80
7th	Japan	Mai Nakagawa	339.85
8th	Italy	Noemi Bátki	332.10
9	Germany	Maria Kurjo	331.75
10	Great Britain	Monique Gladding	326.35
11	Mexico	Tatiana Ortiz	324.40
12	North Korea	Kim Un-hyang	315.65

Preliminary match on February 20th, semi-finals and final on February 21st

3-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Wu Minxia He Zi	345.30
2	Canada	Jennifer Abel Émilie Heymans	321.90
3	Italy	Francesca Dallapé Tania Cagnotto	317.40
4th	United States	Kelci Bryant Abby Johnston	315.00
5	Ukraine	Hanna Pysmenska Olena Fedorowa	314.70
6th	Malaysia	Jun Hoong Cheong Pandelela Rinong Pamg	300.90
7th	Mexico	Laura Sánchez Paola Espinosa	300.60
8th	Australia	Sharleen Stratton Anabelle Smith	298.20
9	Germany	Katja Dieckow Nora Subschinski	296.40
10	Japan	Mai Nakagawa Sayaka Shibusawa	288.00
11	Great Britain	Alicia Blagg Rebecca Gallantree	287.10
12	Russia	Nadeschda Baschina Maria Polyakowa	268.20

Preliminary match and final on February 25th

Wu Minxia has already won her sixth title in a world cup competition.

The quota places were won by the synchronous couples from Italy, Malaysia, Ukraine and the USA.

10-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Chen Ruolin Wang Hao	359.58
2	Canada	Meaghan Benfeito Roseline Filion	331.65
3	Great Britain	Sarah Barrow Tonia Couch	314.40
4th	Australia	Alexandra Croak Melissa Wu	311.04
5	Germany	Nora Subschinski Christin Steuer	309.33
6th	Ukraine	Viktoria Potechina Julia Prokopchuk	308.52
7th	Malaysia	Mun Yee Leong Pandelela Rinong Pamg	307.86
8th	Mexico	Paola Espinosa Alejandra Orozco	305.34
9	Russia	Yulia Koltunova Ekaterina Petuchowa	296.70
10	United States	Amy Cozad Laura Ryan	284.70
11	South Korea	Cho Eun-bi Kim Suji	265.50
12	North Korea	Kim Jin-ok Kim Un-hyang	264.27

Final on February 22nd

The quota places were won by the synchronous couples from Canada, Malaysia, Mexico and the Ukraine.

Men

3-meter jumping

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Hey Chong	535.35
2	People's Republic of China	Qin Kai	524.00
3	Canada	Alexandre Despatie	511.95
4th	Australia	Ethan Warren	511.70
5	Ukraine	Illja Kwascha	500.50
6th	Russia	Ilya Sakharov	493.05
7th	Japan	Sho Sakai	491.05
8th	Great Britain	Jack Laugher	463.70
9	United States	Christopher Colwill	460.95
10	Canada	Reuben Ross	455.85
11	Japan	Ken Terauchi	448.50
12	Italy	Michele Benedetti	424.05

Preliminary match on February 21st, semi-finals and final on February 22nd

10 meter high diving

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Qiu Bo	574.90
2	Russia	Viktor Minibayev	523.60
3	Great Britain	Peter Waterfield	510.35
4th	United States	David Boudia	501.10
5	Ukraine	Olexandr Bondar	499.95
6th	People's Republic of China	Lin Yue	493.00
7th	Germany	Patrick Hausding	482.35
8th	Malaysia	Bryan Lomas	461.60
9	Germany	Martin Wolfram	453.40
10	Mexico	Germán Sánchez	448.35
11	Sweden	Christofer Eskilsson	419.85
12	Russia	Gleb Galperin	416.55

Preliminary match on February 24th, semi-finals and final on February 25th

3-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Qin Kai Luo Yutong	445.71
2	Russia	Yevgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Sakharov	439.83
3	Malaysia	Bryan Lomas Qiang Huang	432.09
4th	Ukraine	Olexij Pryhorow Illja Kwascha	424.83
5	Canada	Reuben Ross Alexandre Despatie	417.42
6th	United States	Troy Dumais Kristian Ipsen	414.30
7th	Mexico	Yahel Castillo Alejandro Islas	413.73
8th	Germany	Stephan Feck Patrick Hausding	402.27
9	Australia	Ethan Warren Grant Nel	401.58
10	Great Britain	Christopher Mears Nick Robinson-Baker	390.30
11	France	Damien Cély Matthieu Rosset	385.95
12	Greece	Alexandros Manos Stefanos Paparounas	374.46

Preliminary match and final on February 20th

The quota places were won by the synchronous couples from Canada, Malaysia, Ukraine and the USA.

10-meter synchronized jumping

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	People's Republic of China	Cao Yuan Zhang Yanquan	481.29
2	Mexico	Iván García Germán Sánchez	460.17
3	Germany	Sascha Klein Patrick Hausding	457.41
4th	United States	David Boudia Nick McCrory	444.93
5	Cuba	Jeinkler Aguirre José Antonio Guerra	432.30
6th	Russia	Viktor Minibayev Ilya Sakharov	432.27
7th	Great Britain	Thomas Daley Peter Waterfield	419.97
8th	Canada	Kevin Geyson Eric Sehn	402.12
9	Ukraine	Olexandr Bondar Oleksandr Horschkowosow	380.16
10	South Korea	Park Ji-ho Oh Yi-taek	378.30
11	Colombia	Víctor Ortega Juan Rios	370.80
12	North Korea	Ri Hyun-ju Hyon Il-myong	358.68

Preliminary match and final on February 23

The quota places were won by the synchronous couples from Cuba, Mexico, Russia and the USA.

Medal table

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

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 18th FINA Diving World Cup 2012 - Schedule. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 12, 2012 ; Retrieved April 26, 2012 (English). 
2. ↑ 18th FINA Diving World Cup 2012 - Entries. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 12, 2012 ; Retrieved April 26, 2012 (English).