Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics


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 : 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

A nation could have no more than 16 divers qualify and could enter up to two divers in individual events and one pair in synchronized events.
For the individual diving events, qualifiers were:
For the synchronized events, qualifiers were:
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
DayTimeEvent
Sunday 7 August16:00–17:153m Springboard Synchronized Women
Monday 8 August16:00–17:1510m Platform Synchronized Men
Tuesday 9 August16:00–17:1510m Platform Synchronized Women
Wednesday 10 August16:00–17:153m Springboard Synchronized Men
Friday 12 August15:30–18:303m Springboard Women
Saturday 13 August16:00–17:403m Springboard Women
Sunday 14 August16:00–17:303m Springboard Women
Monday 15 August15:15–18:453m Springboard Men
Tuesday 16 August10:00–11:503m Springboard Men
Tuesday 16 August18:00–20:103m Springboard Men
Wednesday 17 August15:00–18:1010m Platform Women
Thursday 18 August10:00–11:3010m Platform Women
Thursday 18 August16:00–17:3010m Platform Women
Friday 19 August16:00–19:1010m Platform Men
Saturday 20 August11:00–12:5010m Platform Men
Saturday 20 August16:30–18:1010m Platform Men

Medalists

Medal table

Men

Women