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Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Date
  
August 10 – 23

Competitors
  
125 from 30 nations

Venue
  
Beijing National Aquatics Centre

Diving competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 10 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.

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Competition format

The following events were contested by both men and women in Beijing:

  • 3m Springboard Synchronized
  • 10m Platform Synchronized
  • 3m Springboard
  • 10m Platform
  • Individual events consisted of preliminaries, semifinals and finals. The order of divers in the preliminary round were determined by computerized random selection, during the Technical Meeting. The 18 divers with the highest scores in the preliminaries proceeded to the semifinals.

    The semifinal consisted of the top 18 ranked divers from the preliminary competition and the final consisted of the top 12 ranked divers from the semifinal.

    Competition schedule

    All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

    Qualifying criteria

    An NOC could enter up to 2 qualified divers in each individual event and up to 1 team in each synchronized event.

    Qualifying places for each event were awarded as follows:

    Medal table

    Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 Official Website.

    References

    Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wikipedia