Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualifying system
For individual diving the top twelve from the 2011 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2012 Diving World Cup will qualify 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.

Qualification timeline

 * African qualification tournament was not held.

Men's 3 m springboard
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.

Women's 10 m platform
Only two athletes per nation can qualify, meaning if there are less than eighteen athletes the remaining quota spots will go to the additional pool.
 * Athletes listed in brackets have not qualified, rather have earned a quota spot for their nation.