# Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
## Qualifying system

For individual diving the top twelve from the 2011 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2012 Diving World Cup will qualify 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.

## Qualification summary

| Nation | Synchronized diving | Synchronized diving | Synchronized diving | Synchronized diving | Individual diving | Individual diving | Individual diving | Individual diving | Total | Total |
| Nation | Men's 3 m | Men's 10 m | Women's 3 m | Women's 10 m | Men's 3 m | Men's 10 m | Women's 3 m | Women's 10 m | Quotas | Athletes |
| Australia | | | X | X | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 |
| Belarus | | | | | | 2 | | | 2 | 2 |
| Brazil | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 | 3 |
| Canada | X | | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 |
| China | X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 |
| Colombia | | | | | 1 | 2 | | | 3 | 2 |
| Cuba | | X | | | | 2 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| France | | | | | 2 | | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Germany | | X | | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 |
| Great Britain | X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 |
| Greece | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Hungary | | | | | | | 2 | | 2 | 2 |
| Italy | | | X | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 |
| Japan | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Malaysia | X | | X | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 |
| Mexico | X | X | | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 |
| Norway | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 |
| North Korea | | | | | | 1 | | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Russia | X | X | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 |
| South Korea | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Spain | | | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 | 2 |
| Sweden | | | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 |
| Ukraine | X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 |
| United States | X | X | X | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
| Venezuela | | | | | 2 | | 1 | | 3 | 3 |
| Total: 25 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 149 | 136 |

## Qualification timeline

| Event | Date | Venue |
| 2011 European Diving Championships | March 8 to March 13, 2011 | Turin |
| 2011 World Aquatics Championships | July 16 to July 31, 2011 | Shanghai |
| Oceania Qualifying Events | August 19 to August 21, 2011 | Wellington |
| Asian Diving Cup | September 25 to September 27, 2011 | Kuala Lumpur |
| 2011 Pan American Games | October 14 to October 30, 2011 | Guadalajara |
| 2012 FINA Diving World Cup | February 20 to February 26, 2012 | London |
* African qualification tournament was not held.

## Men's 3 m synchronized springboard

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Russia Mexico |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Malaysia Ukraine Canada United States |
| Host nation | 1 | Great Britain |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

## Men's 10 m synchronized platform

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Germany Ukraine |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Mexico United States Cuba Russia |
| Host nation | 1 | Great Britain |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

## Women's 3 m synchronized springboard

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Canada Australia |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Italy United States Ukraine Malaysia |
| Host nation | 1 | Great Britain |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

## Women's 10 m synchronized platform

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Australia Germany |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Canada Ukraine Malaysia Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Great Britain |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

## Men's 3 m springboard

For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (He Chong)  Russia (Ilya Zakharov)  Russia (Evgeny Kuznetsov)  China (Qin Kai)  United States (Troy Dumais)  Mexico (Yahel Castillo)  France (Matthieu Rosset)  Great Britain (Jack Laugher)  Spain (Javier Illana García)  Mexico (Julián Sánchez)  Malaysia (Bryan Nickson)  Ukraine (Oleksiy Pryhorov) |
| 2011 European Diving Championships | 1 | Germany (Patrick Hausding) |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Matthew Barnard) |
| Asia Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Yeoh Ken Nee) |
| 2011 Pan American Games | 1 | none allocated - Mexico already qualified 2 divers |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Australia (Ethan Warren)  Ukraine (Illya Kvasha)  Germany (Sascha Klein)  Canada (Alexandre Despatie)  United States (Chris Colwill)  Italy (Michele Benedetti)  Canada (Reuben Ross)  Japan (Sho Sakai)  Japan (Ken Terauchi)  Great Britain (Chris Mears)  Brazil (César Castro) |
| Additional | 6 | Venezuela (Edickson Contreras)  Greece (Stefanos Paparounas)  Italy (Tommaso Rinaldi)  Netherlands (Yorick de Bruijn)  Colombia (Sebastián Villa)  Venezuela (Robert Paez)  France (Damien Cely) |
| TOTAL | 29 | |

## Men's 10 m platform

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (Qiu Bo)  United States (David Boudia)  Germany (Sascha Klein)  Russia (Victor Minibaev)  Great Britain (Thomas Daley)  United States (Nick McCrory)  Mexico (Iván García)  Ukraine (Oleksandr Bondar)  Canada (Riley McCormick)  China (Zhou Lüxin)  Great Britain (Peter Waterfield)  Ukraine (Kostyantyn Milyayev) |
| 2011 European Diving Championships | 1 | not allocated - Sascha Klein qualified above |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Matthew Barnard) |
| Asia Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Bryan Nickson Lomas) |
| 2011 Pan American Games | 1 | not allocated - Iván García qualified above |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Sweden (Christofer Eskilsson)  Australia (Matthew Mitcham)  Mexico (German Sánchez)  Germany (Martin Wolfram)  Cuba (José Guerra)  Colombia (Sebastián Villa)  Brazil (Hugo Parisi)  Belarus (Vadim Kaptur)  Russia (Gleb Galperin) |
| Additional | 9 | Italy (Francesco Dell'Uomo)  Cuba (Jeinkler Aguirre)  Italy (Andrea Chiarabini)  South Korea (Park Ji-ho)  Belarus (Timofei Hordeichik)  Canada (Eric Sehn)  Norway (Amund Gismervik)  Colombia (Victor Ortega)  Sweden (Jesper Tolvers)  North Korea (Ri Hyon-ju) |
| TOTAL | 32 | |

## Women's 3 m springboard

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (Wu Minxia)  China (He Zi)  Canada (Jennifer Abel)  United States (Christina Loukas)  Australia (Sharleen Stratton)  Mexico (Laura Sánchez)  United States (Kelci Bryant)  Ukraine (Anna Pysmenska)  Italy (Tania Cagnotto)  Russia (Nadezhda Bazhina)  Germany (Uschi Freitag)  Canada (Émilie Heymans) |
| 2011 European Diving Championships | 1 | Sweden (Anna Lindberg) |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Sherilyse Gowlett) |
| Asia Diving Cup | 1 | not allocated - China already have 2 quotas |
| 2011 Pan American Games | 1 | not allocated - Laura Sánchez qualified above |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Germany (Nora Subschinski)  Malaysia (Cheong Jun Heong)  Great Britain (Rebecca Gallantree)  Ukraine (Olena Fedorova)  Mexico (Vianney Hernández)  Venezuela (Joselyn Castillo) |
| Additional | 10 | Russia (Anastasia Pozdniakova)  Great Britain (Hannah Starling)  Italy (Francesca Dallape)  Malaysia (Ng Yan Yee)  France (Marion Farissier)  Brazil (Juliana Veloso)  France (Fanny Bouvet)  Netherlands (Inge Jansen)  Hungary (Flora Gondos)  Hungary (Nora Barta)  Spain (Jenifer Benitez) |
| TOTAL | 30 | |

## Women's 10 m platform

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers |
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (Chen Ruolin)  China (Hu Yadan)  Mexico (Paola Espinosa)  Canada (Meaghan Benfeito)  Malaysia (Pandelela Rinong)  Ukraine (Iuliia Prokopchuk)  Australia (Alex Croak)  Canada (Roseline Filion)  Great Britain (Tonia Couch)  United States (Brittany Viola)  Russia (Yulia Koltunova)  Germany (Nora Subschinski) |
| 2011 European Diving Championships | 1 | Italy (Noemi Batki) |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Rachel Bugg) |
| Asia Diving Cup | 1 | not allocated - China already have 2 quotas |
| 2011 Pan American Games | 1 | not allocated - Paola Espinosa has already qualified |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Germany (Christin Steuer)  Mexico (Carolina Mendoza)  Great Britain (Monique Gladding)  Japan (Mai Nakagawa)  Malaysia (Traisy Vivien Tukiet)  North Korea (Kim Un-Hyang)  United States (Haley Ishimatsu) |
| Additional | 5 | South Korea (Kim Su-ji)  North Korea (Kim Jin-ok)  Italy (Brenda Spaziani)  France (Audrey Labeau)  Cuba (Annia Rivera) |
| TOTAL | 26 | |
^1 Only two athletes per nation can qualify, meaning if there are less than eighteen athletes the remaining quota spots will go to the additional pool.
* Athletes listed in brackets have not qualified, rather have earned a quota spot for their nation.