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Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic competitions in Rio

Summary

Olympic competitions in Rio

Field	Value
event	Diving
games	2016 Summer
image	Diving, Rio 2016.png
image_size	150
venue	Maria Lenk Aquatic Center
dates	7–20 August 2016
competitors	136
nations	29
num_events	8
prev	2012
next	2020

The diving competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 7 to 20 August at Maria Lenk Aquatic Center in Barra da Tijuca. It was one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and synchronised swimming.

The 2016 Games featured competitions in eight events (men and women events each of): 3m springboard, synchronised 3m springboard, 10m platform, and synchronised 10m platform.

The diving competitions featured up to 136 athletes. All divers had to be at least 14 years old on or by 31 December 2016.

On Tuesday August 9, the water of the diving well turned dark green, originally thought to be caused by the heat and lack of wind in the venue. However, at the time a CNN photographer took a picture, an adjacent pool in the same location was not green. Olympic officials later confirmed that the change in color was due to 160 litres of hydrogen peroxide having been mistakenly added to the pool during cleaning.

For the eighth consecutive Games, China dominated the medal table, and for the fourth occasion in that period were denied a clean sweep of diving golds by a single event; in this case, the 3 metre synchronised men's event won by Great Britain's Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, their nation's first ever gold medalists in the discipline.

Qualification

The [[Maria Lenk Aquatics Center]]'s diving pool, during the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Main article: Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A nation could have no more than 16 divers qualify (up to eight males and eight females) and could enter up to two divers in individual events and one pair in synchronized events.

For the individual diving events, qualifiers were:

the top 12 finishers in each event from the 2015 World Championships,
the five continental champions in each event, and
up to 18 semi-finalists from the 2016 FINA Diving World Cup.

For the synchronized events (pairs), qualifiers were:

the top three finishers in each event from the 2015 World Championships,
the top four from in each event the 2016 World Cup, and
the host nation (Brazil).

Note: Qualifying spots went to the nation – they were not tied to the individual diver who achieved the place/finish at the qualifying event. However, an individual diver might only qualify one spot for their nation.

Participating nations

136 athletes represented 29 nations in Diving at the 2016 Olympics:

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC-3)

Day	Time	Event
Sunday 7 August	16:00–17:15	3m Springboard Synchronized Women
Monday 8 August	16:00–17:15	10m Platform Synchronized Men
Tuesday 9 August	16:00–17:15	10m Platform Synchronized Women
Wednesday 10 August	16:00–17:15	3m Springboard Synchronized Men
Friday 12 August	15:30–18:30	3m Springboard Women (Preliminaries)
Saturday 13 August	16:00–17:40	3m Springboard Women (Semifinal)
Sunday 14 August	16:00–17:30	3m Springboard Women (Final)
Monday 15 August	15:15–18:45	3m Springboard Men (Preliminaries)
Tuesday 16 August	10:00–11:50	3m Springboard Men (Semifinal)
18:00–20:10	3m Springboard Men (Final)
Wednesday 17 August	15:00–18:10	10m Platform Women (Preliminaries)
Thursday 18 August	10:00–11:30	10m Platform Women (Semifinal)
16:00–17:30	10m Platform Women (Final)
Friday 19 August	16:00–19:10	10m Platform Men (Preliminaries)
Saturday 20 August	11:00–12:50	10m Platform Men (Semifinal)
16:30–18:10	10m Platform Men (Final)

Medalists

Medal table

Men

Synchronized 10 m platform
Chen Aisen
and Lin Yue	nowrap	David Boudia
and Steele Johnson	nowrap	Tom Daley
and Daniel Goodfellow

Women

Synchronized 10 m platform
Chen Ruolin
and Liu Huixia	nowrap	Cheong Jun Hoong
and Pandelela Rinong	Meaghan Benfeito
and Roseline Filion

References

"Rio 2016: Diving". [[Rio 2016]].
[https://www.rio2016.com/en/diving Diving page] {{webarchive. link. (23 May 2016 from the 2016 Olympics website (www.rio2016.com); retrieved 2016-05-28.)
"Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Diving". [[FINA]].
"Qualification System - Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Rio 2016".
(9 August 2016). "Algae blamed for green Olympic diving pool".
D'Angelo, Chris. (2016-08-13). "So, Someone Dumped 160 Liters Of Hydrogen Peroxide In 2 Olympic Pools".
"RIO 2016 - DIVING - PARTICIPATING ATHLETES".

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