See main article: Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.[1]
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.[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 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| X | X | X | X | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||||
| X | X | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| X | X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 13 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | |||||||||||
| X | X | X | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| X | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| X | X | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| X | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| X | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| X | X | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total: 29 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 146 | 136 | |||||||||
FINA final list - 10 July 2016 [2]
| Event | Date | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 European Diving Championships | June 9–14, 2015 | Rostock | |
| July 10–13, 2015 |  Toronto | ||
| July 24 – August 9, 2015 |  Kazan | ||
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | September 4–6, 2015 | Kuala Lumpur | |
| Oceania Championships | December 12–13, 2015 |  Melbourne | |
| February 19–24, 2016 |  Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Re-allocation of unused quota | June 16–24, 2016 | — |
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| Host nation | 1 | |||
| Total | 8 |
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| Host nation | 1 | |||
| Total | 8 |
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| Host nation | 1 | |||
| Total | 8 |
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| Host nation | 1 | |||
| Total | 8 |
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | (Cao Yuan) (He Chao) (Ilya Zakharov) (Evgeny Kuznetsov) (Jack Laugher) (Matthieu Rosset) (Rommel Pacheco) (Patrick Hausding) (Illya Kvasha) (Ken Terauchi) (Kevin Chavez) (Woo Ha-ram) | |||
| 1 | not allocated – Matthieu Rosset qualified above | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | (Grant Nel) | ||
| African Qualifying | 1 | (Youssef Selim) | ||
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | (Ahmad Azman) | ||
| 1 | not allocated – Rommel Pacheco qualified above | |||
| Up to 18 | (Andrea Chiarabini) (Michele Benedetti) (Michael Hixon) (Sebastián Morales) (Oliver Dingley) (Sho Sakai) (Rodrigo Diego López) (Kristian Ipsen) (Philippe Gagné) (César Castro) (Yona Knight-Wisdom) (Freddie Woodward) | |||
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 2 | (Stephan Feck) (Constantin Blaha) | ||
| Total | 29 |
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | (Qiu Bo) (Chen Aisen) (Tom Daley) (Victor Minibaev) (David Boudia) (Iván García) (Sascha Klein) (Domonic Bedggood) (Nikita Shleikher) (German Sanchez) (Benjamin Auffret) (Vadim Kaptur) | |||
| 1 | (Martin Wolfram) | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | (James Connor) | ||
| African Qualifying | 1 | (Mohab El-Kordy) | ||
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | (Ooi Tze Liang) | ||
| 1 | not allocated – Mexico already qualified 2 divers | |||
| Up to 18 | (Maxim Bouchard) (Steele Johnson) (Jesús Liranzo) (Victor Ortega) (Robert Páez) (Hugo Parisi) (Rafael Quintero) (Sebastián Villa) (Woo Ha-ram) | |||
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 3 | (Maicol Verzotto) (Vincent Riendeau) (Yauheni Karaliou) | ||
| Total | 28 |
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | (Shi Tingmao) (He Zi) (Jennifer Abel) (Esther Qin) (Tania Cagnotto) (Pamela Ware) (Maddison Keeney) (Rebecca Gallantree) (Uschi Freitag) (Anastasiya Nedobiga) (Olena Fedorova) (Ng Yan Yee) | |||
| 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 | ||
| 1 | not allocated – Jennifer Abel qualified above | |||
| Up to 18 | (Maria Marconi) (Dolores Hernandez) (Cheong Jun Hoong) (Juliana Veloso) (Kassidy Cook) (Tina Punzel) (Grace Reid) (Melany Hernandez) (Kristina Ilinykh) | |||
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 8 | (Nora Subschinski) (Abigail Johnston) (Diana Pineda) (Nadezhda Bazhina) (Maha Amer) (Elizabeth Cui) (Julia Vincent) (Marcela Marić) | ||
| Total | 29 |
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
| width=250 | Competition ! | width=100 | Places ! | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | (Ren Qian) (Si Yajie) (Kim Kuk-hyang) (Laura Marino) (Kim Un-hyang) (Jessica Parratto) (Tonia Couch) (Pandelela Rinong) (Iuliia Prokopchuk) (Noemi Bátki) (Melissa Wu) (Meaghan Benfeito) | |||
| 1 | not allocated – Iuliia Prokopchuk qualified above | |||
| Oceania Qualifying | 1 | (Brittany Broben) | ||
| African Qualifying | 1 | (Maha Gouda) | ||
| 2015 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) | ||
| 1 | (Paola Espinosa) | |||
| Up to 18 | (Sarah Barrow) (Katrina Young) (Alejandra Orozco) (Minami Itahashi) (Maria Kurjo) (Ekaterina Petukhova) (Roseline Filion) | |||
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 5 | (Ganna Krasnoshlyk) (Elena Wassen) (Villő Kormos) (Ingrid Oliveira) (Yulia Timoshinina) | ||
| Total | 28 |