Qualification for diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics allocated a total of 136 quota spots, evenly divided between men and women. Each nation may enter not more than 16 divers (up to eight males and eight females) with up to two in each individual event and a pair in each synchronized event. Athletes must be 14 years of age by the end of 2020 to compete.FINA Revised Qualification System
Timeline Event Date Venue 2019 World Aquatics Championships July 12–20, 2019 Gwangju 2019 Pan American Games August 1–5, 2019 Lima 2019 European Diving Championships August 5–11, 2019 Kyiv 2019 Asian Diving Cup September 6–8, 2019 Kuala Lumpur 2019 Oceania Diving Championships December 12–15, 2019 Auckland 2019 African Diving Qualifier December 16–18, 2019 Durban 2021 FINA Diving World Cup May 1–6, 2021 Tokyo Re-allocation of unused quota TBA —
Qualification summary For individual diving, the top twelve from the 2019 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2020 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. Additional quota places go to the next best finishers in the World Cup until the maximum number of divers (68 athletes per gender) is reached.
Nation Synchronized diving Individual diving TotalMen's3 m Men's10 m Women's3 m Women's10m Men's3 m Men's10 m Women's3 m Women's10 m Quotas Athletes 122277 21144 1 2221010 22221210 21 33 1 11 11 133 11 133 22221212 2212109 1 246 1 122 1 11 12211011 2255 22221214 111 1122 1 11 1 11 221297 1 122 2 22 221175 2 22 1 11 1 11 112166 22221111 1 11Total: 30 NOCs888829292730147144
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, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Xie Siyi) (Wang Zongyuan) (Jack Laugher) (Andrew Capobianco) (Nikita Shleikher) (Rommel Pacheco) (Sebastián Morales) (Evgeny Kuznetsov) (Patrick Hausding) (Oleh Kolodiy) (Woo Ha-ram) (Tyler Downs) 2019 Pan American Games 1 (Daniel Restrepo) 2019 European Diving Championships 1 (James Heatly) 2019 Asian Diving Cup 1 (Ken Terauchi) 2019 Oceania Diving Championships 1 (Li Shixin) 2019 African Diving Qualifier 1 (Mohab El-Kordy) FINA Diving World Cup 7 (Martin Wolfram) (Alexis Jandard) (Osmar Olvera) (Anton Down-Jenkins) (Nicolás García) (Yona Knight-Wisdom) (Jonathan Ruvalcaba) Re-allocation of unused quota 5 (Cedric Fofana) (Lorenzo Marsaglia) (Oliver Dingley) (Kim Yeong-nam) (Alberto Arévalo) Total 29
Men's 10 m platform For the individual events, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 11 (Yang Jian) (Cao Yuan) (Tom Daley) (Woo Ha-ram) (Jordan Windle) (Noah Williams) (Oleksiy Sereda) (Benjamin Auffret) (Brandon Loschiavo) (Aleksandr Bondar) (Nathan Zsombor-Murray) (Cassiel Rousseau) 2019 Pan American Games 1 (Iván García) 2019 European Diving Championships 1 (Viktor Minibaev) 2019 Asian Diving Cup 1 (Jonathan Chan) 2019 Oceania Diving Championships1 (Sam Fricker) 2019 African Diving Qualifier 1 (Mohab El-Kordy) FINA Diving World Cup 8 (Andrés Villareal) (Kawan Pereira) (Jaden Eikermann) (Rylan Wiens) (Sebastián Villa) (Rikuto Tamai) (Timo Barthel) (Matthieu Rosset) Re-allocation of unused quota 5 (Rafael Quintero) (Óscar Ariza) (Kim Yeong-taek) (Isaac Souza) (Reo Nishida) Total 29
Women's 3 m springboard For the individual events, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Shi Tingmao) (Anabelle Smith) (Wang Han) (Jennifer Abel) (Tina Punzel) (Pamela Ware) (Sayaka Mikami) (Grace Reid) (Viktoriya Kesar) (Ng Yan Yee) (Inge Jansen) (Esther Qin) 2019 Pan American Games 1 (Arantxa Chávez) 2019 European Diving Championships 1 (Mariia Poliakova) 2019 Asian Diving Cup 1 (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) 2019 Oceania Diving Championships 0 (Elizabeth Cui) 2019 African Diving Qualifier 1 (Micaela Bouter) FINA Diving World Cup 7 (Hailey Hernandez) (Aranza Vázquez) (Krysta Palmer) (Anna Pysmenska) (Haruka Enomoto) (Michelle Heimberg) (Scarlett Mew Jensen) Re-allocation of unused quota 4 (Kim Su-ji) (Julia Vincent) (Emma Gullstrand) (Luana Lira) Total 27
Women's 10 m platform For the individual events, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
Competition Places Qualified divers FINA World Championships 12 (Chen Yuxi) (Quan Hongchan) (Celina Toth) (Meaghan Benfeito) (Noemi Batki) (Melissa Wu) (Lois Toulson) (Delaney Schnell) (Pandelela Rinong) (Matsuri Arai) (Celine van Duijn) (Katrina Young) 2019 Pan American Games 1 (Alejandra Orozco) 2019 European Diving Championships 1 (Sofiya Lyskun) 2019 Asian Diving Cup 0 (Kim Mi-rae) 2019 Oceania Diving Championships 1 (Nikita Hains) 2019 African Diving Qualifier 1 (Maha Gouda) FINA Diving World Cup 8 (Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix) (Sarah Jodoin Di Maria) (Yulia Timoshinina) (Gabriela Agúndez) (Anna Konanykhina) (Ingrid Oliveira) (Christina Wassen) (Kwon Ha-lim) Re-allocation of unused quota 6 (Elena Wassen) (Tanya Watson) (Freida Lim) (Cheong Jun Hoong) (Alaïs Kalonji) (Anne Tuxen) Total 30
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