# Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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 | 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 | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 |
| Austria | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Belarus | | | | | | 2 | | | 2 | 2 |
| Brazil | X | X | X | X | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Canada | | | X | X | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 |
| China | X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 13 |
| Colombia | | | | | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 4 | 4 |
| Croatia | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| France | | | | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Germany | X | X | X | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 |
| Great Britain | X | X | X | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
| Hungary | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ireland | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Italy | X | | X | | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Jamaica | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Japan | | | | | 2 | | | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Malaysia | | | X | X | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| Mexico | X | X | | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 |
| Netherlands | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| New Zealand | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| North Korea | | | | X | | | | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Puerto Rico | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 |
| Russia | X | X | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 |
| South Africa | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| South Korea | | | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 | 1 |
| Ukraine | | X | | | 1 | | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| United States | X | X | | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 |
| Venezuela | | | | | | 2 | | | 2 | 2 |
| Total: 29 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 146 | 136 |
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 | China Russia Great Britain |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Germany Mexico Italy United States |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 | |

### Men's 10 m synchronized platform

| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Mexico Russia |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Germany Great Britain United States Ukraine |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 | |

### Women's 3 m synchronized springboard

| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Canada Australia |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Italy Malaysia Great Britain Germany |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| Total | 8 | |

### Women's 10 m synchronized platform

| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Canada North Korea |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Malaysia Great Britain United States Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Brazil |
| 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 | China (Cao Yuan) China (He Chao) Russia (Ilya Zakharov) Russia (Evgeny Kuznetsov) Great Britain (Jack Laugher) France (Matthieu Rosset) Mexico (Rommel Pacheco) Germany (Patrick Hausding) Ukraine (Illya Kvasha) Japan (Ken Terauchi) Australia (Kevin Chavez) South Korea (Woo Ha-ram) |
| 2015 European Diving Championships | 1 | not allocated – Matthieu Rosset qualified above |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Grant Nel) |
| African Qualifying | 1 | Egypt (Youssef Selim) |
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Ahmad Azman) |
| 2015 Pan American Games | 1 | not allocated – Rommel Pacheco qualified above |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Italy (Andrea Chiarabini) Italy (Michele Benedetti) United States (Michael Hixon) Colombia (Sebastián Morales) Ireland (Oliver Dingley) Japan (Sho Sakai) Mexico (Rodrigo Diego López) United States (Kristian Ipsen) Canada (Philippe Gagné) Brazil (César Castro) Jamaica (Yona Knight-Wisdom) Great Britain (Freddie Woodward) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 2 | Germany (Stephan Feck) Austria (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 | China (Qiu Bo) China (Chen Aisen) Great Britain (Tom Daley) Russia (Victor Minibaev) United States (David Boudia) Mexico (Iván García) Germany (Sascha Klein) Australia (Domonic Bedggood) Russia (Nikita Shleikher) Mexico (German Sanchez) France (Benjamin Auffret) Belarus (Vadim Kaptur) |
| 2015 European Diving Championships | 1 | Germany (Martin Wolfram) |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (James Connor) |
| African Qualifying | 1 | Egypt (Mohab El-Kordy) |
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Ooi Tze Liang) |
| 2015 Pan American Games | 1 | not allocated – Mexico already qualified 2 divers |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Canada (Maxim Bouchard) United States (Steele Johnson) Venezuela (Jesús Liranzo) Colombia (Victor Ortega) Venezuela (Robert Páez) Brazil (Hugo Parisi) Puerto Rico (Rafael Quintero) Colombia (Sebastián Villa) South Korea (Woo Ha-ram) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 3 | Italy (Maicol Verzotto) Canada (Vincent Riendeau) Belarus (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 | China (Shi Tingmao) China (He Zi) Canada (Jennifer Abel) Australia (Esther Qin) Italy (Tania Cagnotto) Canada (Pamela Ware) Australia (Maddison Keeney) Great Britain (Rebecca Gallantree) Netherlands (Uschi Freitag) Ukraine (Anastasiya Nedobiga) Ukraine (Olena Fedorova) Malaysia (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 | Italy (Maria Marconi) Mexico (Dolores Hernandez) Malaysia (Cheong Jun Hoong) Brazil (Juliana Veloso) United States (Kassidy Cook) Germany (Tina Punzel) Great Britain (Grace Reid) Mexico (Melany Hernandez) Russia (Kristina Ilinykh) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 8 | Germany (Nora Subschinski) United States (Abigail Johnston) Colombia (Diana Pineda) Russia (Nadezhda Bazhina) Egypt (Maha Amer) New Zealand (Elizabeth Cui) South Africa (Julia Vincent) Croatia (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 | China (Ren Qian) China (Si Yajie) North Korea (Kim Kuk-hyang) France (Laura Marino) North Korea (Kim Un-hyang) United States (Jessica Parratto) Great Britain (Tonia Couch) Malaysia (Pandelela Rinong) Ukraine (Iuliia Prokopchuk) Italy (Noemi Bátki) Australia (Melissa Wu) Canada (Meaghan Benfeito) |
| 2015 European Diving Championships | 1 | not allocated – Iuliia Prokopchuk qualified above |
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | Australia (Brittany Broben) |
| African Qualifying | 1 | Egypt (Maha Gouda) |
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) |
| 2015 Pan American Games | 1 | Mexico (Paola Espinosa) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | Up to 18 | Great Britain (Sarah Barrow) United States (Katrina Young) Mexico (Alejandra Orozco) Japan (Minami Itahashi) Germany (Maria Kurjo) Russia (Ekaterina Petukhova) Canada (Roseline Filion) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 5 | Ukraine (Ganna Krasnoshlyk) Germany (Elena Wassen) Hungary (Villő Kormos) Brazil (Ingrid Oliveira) Russia (Yulia Timoshinina) |
| Total | 28 | |