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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.[1] 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.[2]

The diving competitions featured up to 136 athletes.[3] All divers had to be at least 14 years old on or by 31 December 2016.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6]

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.

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.[3]

For the individual diving events, qualifiers were:

For the synchronized events (pairs), 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:[7]

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC-3)

Medalists

Medal table

Men

Women

References

  1. ^ "Rio 2016: Diving". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  2. ^ Diving page Archived 23 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine from the 2016 Olympics website (www.rio2016.com); retrieved 2016-05-28.
  3. ^ a b c "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Diving" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Qualification System - Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Rio 2016" (PDF). Diving. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Algae blamed for green Olympic diving pool". CNN. 9 August 2016.
  6. ^ D'Angelo, Chris (13 August 2016). "So, Someone Dumped 160 Liters Of Hydrogen Peroxide In 2 Olympic Pools". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  7. ^ "RIO 2016 - DIVING - PARTICIPATING ATHLETES". FINA.org. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

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