# Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualification for diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics allocated a total of 136 quota spots, evenly divided between men and women. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

## 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 | 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 10m | Men's 3 m | Men's 10 m | Women's 3 m | Women's 10 m | Quotas | Athletes |
| Australia | | | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
| Brazil | | | | | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Canada | | | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 |
| China | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
| Colombia | | | | | 2 | 1 | | | 3 | 3 |
| Dominican Republic | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt | | | | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| France | | | | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Great Britain | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 |
| Germany | | | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 |
| Italy | | | | | 1 | | | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Ireland | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Jamaica | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Japan | | | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Malaysia | | | | | | | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| Mexico | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| Norway | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Netherlands | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| New Zealand | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 |
| ROC | | | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 |
| Singapore | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| South Africa | | | | | | | 2 | | 2 | 2 |
| South Korea | | | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| Spain | | | | | 2 | | | | 2 | 2 |
| Switzerland | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| Sweden | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| Ukraine | | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| United States | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
| Venezuela | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 |
| Total: 30 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 30 | 147 | 144 |

## Synchronized diving
### Men's 3 m synchronized springboard

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

### Men's 10 m synchronized platform

| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Great Britain ROC |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Canada Mexico South Korea Ukraine |
| Host nation | 1 | Japan |
| Total | 8 | |

### Women's 3 m synchronized springboard

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

### Women's 10 m synchronized platform

| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Malaysia United States |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Canada Germany Great Britain Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Japan |
| 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 | China (Xie Siyi) China (Wang Zongyuan) Great Britain (Jack Laugher) United States (Andrew Capobianco) ROC (Nikita Shleikher) Mexico (Rommel Pacheco) Colombia (Sebastián Morales) ROC (Evgeny Kuznetsov) Germany (Patrick Hausding) Ukraine (Oleh Kolodiy) South Korea (Woo Ha-ram) United States (Tyler Downs) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | 1 | Colombia (Daniel Restrepo) |
| 2019 European Diving Championships | 1 | Great Britain (James Heatly) |
| 2019 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Japan (Ken Terauchi) |
| 2019 Oceania Diving Championships | 1 | Australia (Li Shixin) |
| 2019 African Diving Qualifier | 1 | Egypt (Mohab El-Kordy) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 7 | Germany (Martin Wolfram) France (Alexis Jandard) Mexico (Osmar Olvera) New Zealand (Anton Down-Jenkins) Spain (Nicolás García) Jamaica (Yona Knight-Wisdom) Dominican Republic (Jonathan Ruvalcaba) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 5 | Canada (Cedric Fofana) Italy (Lorenzo Marsaglia) Ireland (Oliver Dingley) South Korea (Kim Yeong-nam) Spain (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 | China (Yang Jian) China (Cao Yuan) Great Britain (Tom Daley) South Korea (Woo Ha-ram) United States (Jordan Windle) Great Britain (Noah Williams) Ukraine (Oleksiy Sereda) France (Benjamin Auffret) United States (Brandon Loschiavo) ROC (Aleksandr Bondar) Canada (Nathan Zsombor-Murray) Australia (Cassiel Rousseau) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | 1 | Mexico (Iván García) |
| 2019 European Diving Championships | 1 | ROC (Viktor Minibaev) |
| 2019 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Singapore (Jonathan Chan) |
| 2019 Oceania Diving Championships | 1 | Australia (Sam Fricker) |
| 2019 African Diving Qualifier | 1 | Egypt (Mohab El-Kordy) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 8 | Mexico (Andrés Villareal) Brazil (Kawan Pereira) Germany (Jaden Eikermann) Canada (Rylan Wiens) Colombia (Sebastián Villa) Japan (Rikuto Tamai) Germany (Timo Barthel) France (Matthieu Rosset) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 5 | Puerto Rico (Rafael Quintero) Venezuela (Óscar Ariza) South Korea (Kim Yeong-taek) Brazil (Isaac Souza) Japan (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 | China (Shi Tingmao) Australia (Anabelle Smith) China (Wang Han) Canada (Jennifer Abel) Germany (Tina Punzel) Canada (Pamela Ware) Japan (Sayaka Mikami) Great Britain (Grace Reid) Ukraine (Viktoriya Kesar) Malaysia (Ng Yan Yee) Netherlands (Inge Jansen) Australia (Esther Qin) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | 1 | Mexico (Arantxa Chávez) |
| 2019 European Diving Championships | 1 | ROC (Mariia Poliakova) |
| 2019 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) |
| 2019 Oceania Diving Championships | 0 | New Zealand (Elizabeth Cui) |
| 2019 African Diving Qualifier | 1 | South Africa (Micaela Bouter) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 7 | United States (Hailey Hernandez) Mexico (Aranza Vázquez) United States (Krysta Palmer) Ukraine (Anna Pysmenska) Japan (Haruka Enomoto) Switzerland (Michelle Heimberg) Great Britain (Scarlett Mew Jensen) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 4 | South Korea (Kim Su-ji) South Africa (Julia Vincent) Sweden (Emma Gullstrand) Brazil (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 | China (Chen Yuxi) China (Quan Hongchan) Canada (Celina Toth) Canada (Meaghan Benfeito) Italy (Noemi Batki) Australia (Melissa Wu) Great Britain (Lois Toulson) United States (Delaney Schnell) Malaysia (Pandelela Rinong) Japan (Matsuri Arai) Netherlands (Celine van Duijn) United States (Katrina Young) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | 1 | Mexico (Alejandra Orozco) |
| 2019 European Diving Championships | 1 | Ukraine (Sofiya Lyskun) |
| 2019 Asian Diving Cup | 0 | North Korea (Kim Mi-rae) |
| 2019 Oceania Diving Championships | 1 | Australia (Nikita Hains) |
| 2019 African Diving Qualifier | 1 | Egypt (Maha Gouda) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 8 | Great Britain (Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix) Italy (Sarah Jodoin Di Maria) ROC (Yulia Timoshinina) Mexico (Gabriela Agúndez) ROC (Anna Konanykhina) Brazil (Ingrid Oliveira) Germany (Christina Wassen) South Korea (Kwon Ha-lim) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 6 | Germany (Elena Wassen) Ireland (Tanya Watson) Singapore (Freida Lim) Malaysia (Cheong Jun Hoong) France (Alaïs Kalonji) Norway (Anne Tuxen) |
| Total | 30 | |