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Qualification for diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics allocated a total of 136 quota spots, evenly divided between men and women. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] 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.[2]
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| Event | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 World Aquatics Championships | July 12–20, 2019 |  Gwangju |
| 2019 Pan American Games | August 1–5, 2019 |  Lima |
| 2019 European Diving Championships | 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 | — |
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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3 m | Men's 10 m | Women's 3 m | Women's 10m | Men's 3 m | Men's 10 m | Women's 3 m | Women's 10 m | Quotas | Athletes | |
 Australia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | ||||
 Brazil | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||
 Canada |  | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | |
 China | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
 Colombia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
 Dominican Republic | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Egypt | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
 France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
 Great Britain | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 |
 Germany | | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | |
 Italy | | | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||
 Ireland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
 Jamaica | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Japan | | | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
 Malaysia | | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |||||
 Mexico | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
 Norway | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
 New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Puerto Rico | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 ROC | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | ||
 Singapore | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
 South Africa | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
 South Korea | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |||
 Spain | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
 Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Ukraine | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | |||
 United States | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | |
 Venezuela | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Total: 30 NOCs | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 30 | 147 | 144 |
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Men's 3 m synchronized springboard
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Great Britain Mexico |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Germany Italy ROC United States |
| Host nation | 1 | Japan |
| Total | 8 |
Men's 10 m synchronized platform
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Great Britain ROC |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Canada Mexico South Korea Ukraine |
| Host nation | 1 | Japan |
| Total | 8 |
Women's 3 m synchronized springboard
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Canada Mexico |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Germany Great Britain Italy United States |
| Host nation | 1 | Japan |
| Total | 8 |
Women's 10 m synchronized platform
| Competition | Places | Qualified teams |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 3 | China Malaysia United States |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 4 | Canada Germany Great Britain Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Japan |
| Total | 8 |
Men's 3 m springboard
For the individual events, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
Men's 10 m platform
For the individual events, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
Women's 3 m springboard
For the individual events, one diver can only gain a single quota place per event for their NOC.
| Competition | Places | Qualified divers |
|---|---|---|
| FINA World Championships | 12 | China (Shi Tingmao) Australia (Anabelle Smith) China (Wang Han) Canada (Jennifer Abel) Germany (Tina Punzel) Canada (Pamela Ware) Japan (Sayaka Mikami) Great Britain (Grace Reid) Ukraine (Viktoriya Kesar) Malaysia (Ng Yan Yee) Netherlands (Inge Jansen) Australia (Esther Qin) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | 1 | Mexico (Arantxa Chávez) |
| 2019 European Diving Championships | 1 | ROC (Mariia Poliakova) |
| 2019 Asian Diving Cup | 1 | Malaysia (Nur Dhabitah Sabri) |
| 2019 Oceania Diving Championships | 0 | New Zealand (Elizabeth Cui) |
| 2019 African Diving Qualifier | 1 | South Africa (Micaela Bouter) |
| FINA Diving World Cup | 7 | United States (Hailey Hernandez) Mexico (Aranza Vázquez) United States (Krysta Palmer) Ukraine (Anna Pysmenska) Japan (Haruka Enomoto) Switzerland (Michelle Heimberg) Great Britain (Scarlett Mew Jensen) |
| Re-allocation of unused quota | 4 | South Korea (Kim Su-ji) South Africa (Julia Vincent) Sweden (Emma Gullstrand) Brazil (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.
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