This article details the qualifying phase for diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 136 athletes coming from the different nations; each has been allowed to enter not more than 16 divers (up to eight males and eight females) with only two in individual events and a pair in synchronized events.

Summary For individual diving, the top twelve from the 2015 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2016 Diving World Cup will achieve a quota spot. For the pairs events, the top three from the world championships, the top four from the world cup and the hosts qualify.

Nation Synchronized diving Individual diving TotalMen's3 m Men's10 m Women's3 m Women's10 m Men's3 m Men's10 m Women's3 m Women's10 m Quotas Athletes X 222299 1 11 2 22 XXXX111189 XX122297 XXXX22221213 121 44 1 11 111144 11 133 XXX 2222118 XXXX21221111 111 1 11 X X 212188 1 11 2 133 XX112286 XX X2222119 1 11 1 11 X 233 1 11 XX 2222108 1 11 11 21 X 1 2267 XX X22221110 2 22Total: 29 NOCs888829282928146136

FINA final list - 10 July 2016

Timeline Event Date Venue 2015 European Diving Championships June 9–14, 2015 Rostock 2015 Pan American Games July 10–13, 2015 Toronto 2015 World Aquatics Championships July 24 – August 9, 2015 Kazan 2015 Asian Diving Cup September 4–6, 2015 Kuala Lumpur Oceania Championships December 12–13, 2015 Melbourne 2016 FINA Diving World Cup February 19–24, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Re-allocation of unused quota June 16–24, 2016 —

Synchronized diving

Men's 3 m synchronized springboard Competition Places Qualified teams FINA World Championships 3 FINA Diving World Cup 4 Host nation 1 Total 8

Men's 10 m synchronized platform Competition Places Qualified teams FINA World Championships 3 FINA Diving World Cup 4 Host nation 1 Total 8

Women's 3 m synchronized springboard Competition Places Qualified teams FINA World Championships 3 FINA Diving World Cup 4 Host nation 1 Total 8

Women's 10 m synchronized platform Competition Places Qualified teams FINA World Championships 3 FINA Diving World Cup 4 Host nation 1 Total 8

Individual diving

Men's 3 m springboard For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Cao Yuan) (He Chao) (Ilya Zakharov) (Evgeny Kuznetsov) (Jack Laugher) (Matthieu Rosset) (Rommel Pacheco) (Patrick Hausding) (Illya Kvasha) (Ken Terauchi) (Kevin Chavez) (Woo Ha-ram) 2015 European Diving Championships 1 not allocated – Matthieu Rosset qualified above Oceania Qualifying 1 (Grant Nel) African Qualifying 1 (Youssef Selim) 2015 Asian Diving Cup 1 (Ahmad Azman) 2015 Pan American Games 1 not allocated – Rommel Pacheco qualified above FINA Diving World Cup Up to 18 (Andrea Chiarabini) (Michele Benedetti) (Michael Hixon) (Sebastián Morales) (Oliver Dingley) (Sho Sakai) (Rodrigo Diego López) (Kristian Ipsen) (Philippe Gagné) (César Castro) (Yona Knight-Wisdom) (Freddie Woodward) Re-allocation of unused quota 2 (Stephan Feck) (Constantin Blaha) Total 29

Men's 10 m platform For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Qiu Bo) (Chen Aisen) (Tom Daley) (Victor Minibaev) (David Boudia) (Iván García) (Sascha Klein) (Domonic Bedggood) (Nikita Shleikher) (German Sanchez) (Benjamin Auffret) (Vadim Kaptur) 2015 European Diving Championships 1 (Martin Wolfram) Oceania Qualifying 1 (James Connor) African Qualifying 1 (Mohab El-Kordy) 2015 Asian Diving Cup 1 (Ooi Tze Liang) 2015 Pan American Games 1 not allocated – Mexico already qualified 2 divers FINA Diving World Cup Up to 18 (Maxim Bouchard) (Steele Johnson) (Jesús Liranzo) (Victor Ortega) (Robert Páez) (Hugo Parisi) (Rafael Quintero) (Sebastián Villa) (Woo Ha-ram) Re-allocation of unused quota 3 (Maicol Verzotto) (Vincent Riendeau) (Yauheni Karaliou) Total 28

Women's 3 m springboard For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Shi Tingmao) (He Zi) (Jennifer Abel) (Esther Qin) (Tania Cagnotto) (Pamela Ware) (Maddison Keeney) (Rebecca Gallantree) (Uschi Freitag) (Anastasiya Nedobiga) (Olena Fedorova) (Ng Yan Yee) 2015 European Diving Championships 1 not allocated – Tania Cagnotto qualified above Oceania Qualifying 1 not allocated – Australia already qualified 2 divers African Qualifying 1 not allocated – NOC rejected 2015 Asian Diving Cup 1 not allocated – China already qualified 2 divers 2015 Pan American Games 1 not allocated – Jennifer Abel qualified above FINA Diving World Cup Up to 18 (Maria Marconi) (Dolores Hernandez) (Cheong Jun Hoong) (Juliana Veloso) (Kassidy Cook) (Tina Punzel) (Grace Reid) (Melany Hernandez) (Kristina Ilinykh) Re-allocation of unused quota 8 (Nora Subschinski) (Abigail Johnston) (Diana Pineda) (Nadezhda Bazhina) (Maha Amer) (Elizabeth Cui) (Julia Vincent) (Marcela Marić) Total 29 1. South Africa was awarded a quota place through the continental qualifier, but later declined, as SASCOC made an agreement on the Rio 2016 Olympics qualification criteria that the Continental Qualification route would not be considered.

Women's 10 m platform For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Ren Qian) (Si Yajie) (Kim Kuk-hyang) (Laura Marino) (Kim Un-hyang) (Jessica Parratto) (Tonia Couch) (Pandelela Rinong) (Iuliia Prokopchuk) (Noemi Bátki) (Melissa Wu) (Meaghan Benfeito) 2015 European Diving Championships 1 not allocated – Iuliia Prokopchuk qualified above Oceania Qualifying 1 (Brittany Broben) African Qualifying 1 (Maha Gouda) 2015 Asian Diving Cup 1 (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) 2015 Pan American Games 1 (Paola Espinosa) FINA Diving World Cup Up to 18 (Sarah Barrow) (Katrina Young) (Alejandra Orozco) (Minami Itahashi) (Maria Kurjo) (Ekaterina Petukhova) (Roseline Filion) Re-allocation of unused quota 5 (Ganna Krasnoshlyk) (Elena Wassen) (Villő Kormos) (Ingrid Oliveira) (Yulia Timoshinina) Total 28

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