See main article: Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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.[1]
| Nation | Synchronized diving | Individual diving | Total | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=65 | width=65 | width=65 | width=65 | width=65 | width=65 | width=65 | width=65 | width=55 | Quotas | width=55 | Athletes | ||||||||
| X | X | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | |||||||||||
| X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| X | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | |||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | ||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total: 25 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 149 | 136 | |||||||||
| Event | Date | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 European Diving Championships[2] | March 8 to March 13, 2011 |  Turin | |
| July 16 to July 31, 2011 |  Shanghai | ||
| Oceania Qualifying Events | August 19 to August 21, 2011 |  Wellington | |
| Asian Diving Cup[3] | September 25 to September 27, 2011 | Kuala Lumpur | |
| October 14 to October 30, 2011 |  Guadalajara | ||
| February 20 to February 26, 2012 |  London |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | |||
| TOTAL | 8 |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | |||
| TOTAL | 8 |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | |||
| TOTAL | 8 |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | |||
| TOTAL | 8 |
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (He Chong) (Ilya Zakharov) (Evgeny Kuznetsov) (Qin Kai) (Troy Dumais) (Yahel Castillo) (Matthieu Rosset) (Jack Laugher) (Javier Illana García) (Julián Sánchez) (Bryan Nickson) (Oleksiy Pryhorov) | |||
| (Patrick Hausding) | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | |||
| Asia Diving Cup | (Yeoh Ken Nee) | ||
| none allocated - Mexico already qualified 2 divers | |||
| (Ethan Warren) (Illya Kvasha) (Sascha Klein) (Alexandre Despatie) (Chris Colwill) (Michele Benedetti) (Reuben Ross) (Chris Mears) (César Castro) | |||
| Additional | (Edickson Contreras) (Stefanos Paparounas) (Tommaso Rinaldi) (Sebastián Villa) (Robert Paez) (Damien Cely) | ||
| TOTAL | 29 |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Qiu Bo) (David Boudia) (Sascha Klein) (Victor Minibaev) (Thomas Daley) (Nick McCrory) (Iván García) (Oleksandr Bondar) (Riley McCormick) (Zhou Lüxin) (Peter Waterfield) (Kostyantyn Milyayev) | |||
| not allocated - Sascha Klein qualified above | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | (Matthew Barnard) | ||
| Asia Diving Cup | (Bryan Nickson Lomas) | ||
| not allocated - Iván García qualified above | |||
| (Christofer Eskilsson) (Matthew Mitcham) (German Sánchez) (Martin Wolfram) (José Guerra) (Sebastián Villa) (Hugo Parisi) (Vadim Kaptur) (Gleb Galperin) | |||
| Additional | (Francesco Dell'Uomo) (Jeinkler Aguirre) (Andrea Chiarabini) (Park Ji-ho) (Timofei Hordeichik) (Eric Sehn) (Amund Gismervik) (Victor Ortega) (Ri Hyon-ju) | ||
| TOTAL | 32 |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Wu Minxia) (He Zi) (Jennifer Abel) (Christina Loukas) (Sharleen Stratton) (Laura Sánchez) (Kelci Bryant) (Anna Pysmenska) (Tania Cagnotto) (Nadezhda Bazhina) (Uschi Freitag) (Émilie Heymans) | |||
| (Anna Lindberg) | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | (Sherilyse Gowlett) | ||
| Asia Diving Cup | not allocated - China already have 2 quotas | ||
| not allocated - Laura Sánchez qualified above | |||
| (Nora Subschinski) (Cheong Jun Heong) (Rebecca Gallantree) (Olena Fedorova) (Vianney Hernández) (Joselyn Castillo) | |||
| Additional | (Anastasia Pozdniakova) (Hannah Starling) (Francesca Dallape) (Ng Yan Yee) (Marion Farissier) (Juliana Veloso) (Fanny Bouvet) (Flora Gondos) (Nora Barta) (Jenifer Benitez) | ||
| TOTAL | 30 |
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Chen Ruolin) (Hu Yadan) (Paola Espinosa) (Meaghan Benfeito) (Pandelela Rinong) (Iuliia Prokopchuk) (Alex Croak) (Roseline Filion) (Tonia Couch) (Brittany Viola) (Yulia Koltunova) (Nora Subschinski) | |||
| (Noemi Batki) | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | (Rachel Bugg) | ||
| Asia Diving Cup | not allocated - China already have 2 quotas | ||
| not allocated - Paola Espinosa has already qualified | |||
| (Christin Steuer) (Carolina Mendoza) (Monique Gladding) (Mai Nakagawa) (Traisy Vivien Tukiet) (Kim Un-Hyang) (Haley Ishimatsu) | |||
| Additional | (Kim Su-ji) (Kim Jin-ok) (Brenda Spaziani) (Audrey Labeau) (Annia Rivera) | ||
| TOTAL | 26 |
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.