page_title: Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics
section_title: Diving
hierarchical_section_title: Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics / Diving
caption_attribution_description: English: Matthew Mitcham - Australian Olympic 2008 gold medalist in diving, photo taken at Mardi Gras, Sydney, 2009
context_page_description: Australia competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era. The Australian Olympic Committee sent a total of 410 athletes to the Games to compete in 23 sports.
  Australia left London with a total of 35 medals, the lowest in Summer Olympics since 1992. Ten of these medals were awarded to the athletes in swimming, including the gold from the women's freestyle relay team; six in cycling, five in rowing, and four in sailing. Nine Australian athletes won more than a single Olympic medal in London, while 11 of them managed to claim their Olympic titles for the first time. From the twenty-three sports played by the athletes, fourteen of them contained at least a single Olympic medal. With the absence of baseball and softball at the Olympics, Australia's team-based athletes proved successful in London, as the field hockey teams and the women's basketball team each won bronze medals. For the first time since 2000, Australia did not win an Olympic gold medal in rowing.
context_section_description: Men
  Women
caption: Matthew Mitcham failed to defend his 2008 gold medal in the men's 10 metre platform event.
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