World Aquatics, IOC Approve 2028 Olympic Diving Qualification Pathway
The Worldwide Olympic Committee this week authorised the diving qualification pathway on the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The method was developed by way of collaboration from the IOC Sports activities Division, World Aquatics’ technical diving committee and the bigger World Aquatics Bureau and stakeholders within the course of. It’s the newest qualification pathway to be authorised by IOC at conferences forward of the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina.
The method maintains most of the identical procedures as up to now. Diving competitors will proceed to comprise eight occasions: 4 on 3-meter springboard (males’s, girls’s, males’s synchro, girls’s synchro) and 4 on 10-meter platform ((males’s, girls’s, males’s synchro, girls’s synchro).
Diving has a quota of 136 athletes. Because the host nation, the U.S. receives quota locations for the 4 synchro occasions because the host nation.
Qualification will start on the 2027 World Aquatics Championships in 2027. They’ll comprise continental competitions that yr and conclude within the first two World Aquatics Diving World Cup stops in 2028, at places and dates to be decided. The World Cup stops shall be used to find out all synchro group spots and be a further qualification alternative for people.
Diving will happen on the Rose Bowl Aquatics Heart in Pasadena on Days 3-14 of the 2028 Olympics. Particular person occasions will run July 16-22, with July 25-28 internet hosting synchro occasions.
“Finalizing the Qualification System for diving is one other milestone on the street to LA28. Whereas the athlete quota for diving has stayed the identical over current Olympic cycles, extra Nationwide Olympic Committees now take part,” World Aquatics president Husain Al Musallam stated in a press launch. “Our accountability is all the time to create a transparent, honest qualification pathway for all athletes. This work required cautious consideration and collaboration with the IOC and the worldwide aquatics neighborhood, and I’m happy with the steadiness we have now achieved.”
