Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

Qualification for diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics allocated a total of 136 quota spots, evenly divided between men and women. 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.^[1]

Timeline

Event	Date	Venue
	July 12–20, 2019	Gwangju
	August 1–5, 2019	Lima
	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				Individual diving				Total
Nation	width=65		width=65		width=65		width=65		width=65		width=65	width=65	width=65	width=55	Quotas	width=55	Athletes
					1	2	2	2	7	7
						2	1	1	4	4
					1	2	2	2	10	10
					2	2	2	2	12	10
					2	1			3	3
					1				1	1
					1	1		1	3	3
					1	1		1	3	3
					2	2	2	2	12	12
					2	2	1	2	10	9
					1			2	4	6
					1			1	2	2
					1				1	1
					1	2	2	1	10	11
							2	2	5	5
					2	2	2	2	12	14
								1	1	1
							1	1	2	2
					1				1	1
						1			1	1
					2	2	1	2	9	7
						1		1	2	2
							2		2	2
					2	2	1	1	7	5
					2				2	2
							1		1	1
							1		1	1
					1	1	2	1	6	6
					2	2	2	2	11	11
						1			1	1
Total: 30 NOCs	8	8	8	8	29	29	27	30	147	144

Synchronized diving

Men's 3 m synchronized springboard

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified teams
	3
	4
Host nation	1
Total	8

Men's 10 m synchronized platform

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified teams
	3
	4
Host nation	1
Total	8

Women's 3 m synchronized springboard

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified teams
	3
	4
Host nation	1
Total	8

Women's 10 m synchronized platform

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified teams
	3
	4
Host nation	1
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.

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified divers
	12	(Xie Siyi) (Wang Zongyuan) (Jack Laugher) (Andrew Capobianco) (Nikita Shleikher) (Rommel Pacheco) (Sebastián Morales) (Evgeny Kuznetsov) (Patrick Hausding) (Oleh Kolodiy) (Woo Ha-ram) (Tyler Downs)
	1	(Daniel Restrepo)
	1	(James Heatly)
2019 Asian Diving Cup	1	(Ken Terauchi)
2019 Oceania Diving Championships	1	(Li Shixin)
2019 African Diving Qualifier	1	(Mohab El-Kordy)
	7	(Martin Wolfram) (Alexis Jandard) (Osmar Olvera) (Anton Down-Jenkins) (Nicolás García) (Yona Knight-Wisdom) (Jonathan Ruvalcaba)
Re-allocation of unused quota	5	(Cedric Fofana) (Lorenzo Marsaglia) (Oliver Dingley) (Kim Yeong-nam) (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.

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified divers
	11	(Yang Jian) (Cao Yuan) (Tom Daley) (Woo Ha-ram) (Jordan Windle) (Noah Williams) (Oleksiy Sereda) ~~(Benjamin Auffret)~~ (Brandon Loschiavo) (Aleksandr Bondar) (Nathan Zsombor-Murray) (Cassiel Rousseau)
	1	(Iván García)
	1	(Viktor Minibaev)
2019 Asian Diving Cup	1	(Jonathan Chan)
2019 Oceania Diving Championships	1	(Sam Fricker)
2019 African Diving Qualifier	1	(Mohab El-Kordy)
	8	(Andrés Villareal) (Kawan Pereira) (Jaden Eikermann) (Rylan Wiens) (Sebastián Villa) (Rikuto Tamai) (Timo Barthel) (Matthieu Rosset)
Re-allocation of unused quota	5	(Rafael Quintero) (Óscar Ariza) (Kim Yeong-taek) (Isaac Souza) (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.

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified divers
	12	(Shi Tingmao) (Anabelle Smith) (Wang Han) (Jennifer Abel) (Tina Punzel) (Pamela Ware) (Sayaka Mikami) (Grace Reid) (Viktoriya Kesar) (Ng Yan Yee) (Inge Jansen) (Esther Qin)
	1	(Arantxa Chávez)
	1	(Mariia Poliakova)
2019 Asian Diving Cup	1	(Nur Dhabitah Sabri)
2019 Oceania Diving Championships	0	~~(Elizabeth Cui)~~
2019 African Diving Qualifier	1	(Micaela Bouter)
	7	(Hailey Hernandez) (Aranza Vázquez) (Krysta Palmer) (Anna Pysmenska) (Haruka Enomoto) (Michelle Heimberg) (Scarlett Mew Jensen)
Re-allocation of unused quota	4	(Kim Su-ji) (Julia Vincent) (Emma Gullstrand) (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.

width=250	Competition !	width=100	Places !	Qualified divers
	12	(Chen Yuxi) (Quan Hongchan) (Celina Toth) (Meaghan Benfeito) (Noemi Batki) (Melissa Wu) (Lois Toulson) (Delaney Schnell) (Pandelela Rinong) (Matsuri Arai) (Celine van Duijn) (Katrina Young)
	1	(Alejandra Orozco)
	1	(Sofiya Lyskun)
2019 Asian Diving Cup	0	~~(Kim Mi-rae)~~
2019 Oceania Diving Championships	1	(Nikita Hains)
2019 African Diving Qualifier	1	(Maha Gouda)
	8	(Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix) (Sarah Jodoin Di Maria) (Yulia Timoshinina) (Gabriela Agúndez) (Anna Konanykhina) (Ingrid Oliveira) (Christina Wassen) (Kwon Ha-lim)
Re-allocation of unused quota	6	(Elena Wassen) (Tanya Watson) (Freida Lim) (Cheong Jun Hoong) (Alaïs Kalonji) (Anne Tuxen)
Total	30

Notes and References

https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2021/05/05/77217238-2a50-4f6e-9859-2f824c28d257/FINAL-2021-05-05-Revised-Tokyo-2020-Qualification-System-Diving-ENG.pdf FINA Revised Qualification System