# Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Diving competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 10 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.

## Competition format

The following events were contested by both men and women in Beijing:
* 3m Springboard Synchronized
* 10m Platform Synchronized
* 3m Springboard
* 10m Platform
Individual events consisted of preliminaries, semifinals and finals. The order of divers in the preliminary round were determined by computerized random selection, during the Technical Meeting. The 18 divers with the highest scores in the preliminaries proceeded to the semifinals.
The semifinal consisted of the top 18 ranked divers from the preliminary competition and the final consisted of the top 12 ranked divers from the semifinal.

## Competition schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)
| Day | Time | Event |
| Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 3m Springboard Synchronized Women |
| Monday, August 11, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 10m Platform Synchronized Men |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 10m Platform Synchronized Women |
| Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | 14:30–15:40 | 3m Springboard Synchronized Men |
| Friday, August 15, 2008 | 13:30–16:30 | 3m Springboard Women (Preliminaries) |
| Saturday, August 16, 2008 | 20:00–21:40 | 3m Springboard Women (Semifinal) |
| Sunday, August 17, 2008 | 20:30–22:00 | 3m Springboard Women (Final) |
| Monday, August 18, 2008 | 19:00–22:30 | 3m Springboard Men (Preliminaries) |
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 10:00–11:50 | 3m Springboard Men (Semifinal) |
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 20:30–22:10 | 3m Springboard Men (Final) |
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 19:00–22:10 | 10m Platform Women (Preliminaries) |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 | 10:00–11:40 | 10m Platform Women (Semifinal) |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 | 20:00–21:30 | 10m Platform Women (Final) |
| Friday, August 22, 2008 | 19:00–22:45 | 10m Platform Men (Preliminaries) |
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 | 10:00–11:50 | 10m Platform Men (Semifinal) |
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 | 20:00–21:40 | 10m Platform Men (Final) |

## Qualifying criteria

An NOC could enter up to 2 qualified divers in each individual event and up to 1 team in each synchronized event.
Qualifying places for each event were awarded as follows:
| Competition | Date | Venue | Individual Diving | Synchronized Diving |
| FINA World Championships | March 17 - April 1, 2007 | Melbourne | 12 | 3 |
| FINA Diving World Cup | February 19–25, 2008 | Beijing | 22 | 4 |
| Host nation | - | - | - | China |
| TOTAL | | | 34 | 8 |

## Participating countries

* Australia (9)
* Austria (3)
* Belarus (4)
* Brazil (4)
* Canada (11)
* China (9)
* Colombia (3)
* Cuba (5)
* Finland (1)
* France (2)
* Germany (9)
* Great Britain (10)
* Greece (1)
* Hungary (2)
* Italy (8)
* Japan (2)
* Malaysia (4)
* Mexico (7)
* North Korea (4)
* Philippines (2)
* Romania (2)
* Russia (10)
* South Africa (1)
* South Korea (1)
* Spain (2)
* Sweden (2)
* Ukraine (8)
* United States (12)
* Venezuela (1)

## Medal summary
### Medal table

Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 Official Website.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 7 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |

### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 3 m springboard details | He Chong China | Alexandre Despatie Canada | Qin Kai China |
| 10 m platform details | Matthew Mitcham Australia | Zhou Lüxin China | Gleb Galperin Russia |
| Synchronized 3 m springboard details | Wang Feng and Qin Kai (CHN) | Dmitri Sautin and Yuriy Kunakov (RUS) | Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov (UKR) |
| Synchronized 10 m platform details | Lin Yue and Huo Liang (CHN) | Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein (GER) | Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok (RUS) |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 3 m springboard details | Guo Jingjing China | Yuliya Pakhalina Russia | Wu Minxia China |
| 10 m platform details | Chen Ruolin China | Émilie Heymans Canada | Wang Xin China |
| Synchronized 3 m springboard details | Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia (CHN) | Yuliya Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova (RUS) | Ditte Kotzian and Heike Fischer (GER) |
| Synchronized 10 m platform details | Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin (CHN) | Briony Cole and Melissa Wu (AUS) | Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz (MEX) |

## Qualification summary

| Nation | Synchronized Diving | Synchronized Diving | Synchronized Diving | Synchronized Diving | Individual Diving | Individual Diving | Individual Diving | Individual Diving | Total | Total |
| Nation | Men's 3m | Men's 10m | Women's 3m | Women's 10m | Men's 3m | Men's 10m | Women's 3m | Women's 10m | Quotas | Athletes |
| Australia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 |
| Austria | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Belarus | | | | | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 4 | 4 |
| Brazil | | | | | 1 | 2 | | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Canada | 1 | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 |
| China | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
| Colombia | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 | 3 |
| Cuba | | 1 | | | 2 | 2 | | | 5 | 5 |
| Finland | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| France | | | | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 |
| Greece | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hungary | | | | | | | 2 | | 2 | 2 |
| Italy | | | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| Japan | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Malaysia | | | | | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Mexico | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
| North Korea | | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Philippines | | | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 |
| Romania | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Russia | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| South Africa | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| South Korea | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Spain | | | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 | 2 |
| Sweden | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 | | 1 | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 |
| United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 |
| Venezuela | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Total: 29 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 150 | 136 |