Diving

From the 1m springboard to the imposing 10m platform, divers from across the Commonwealth will demonstrate control, poise, flexibility, and precision.

Diving promises the spectacle of individual and synchronised divers maintaining immaculate form as they somersault towards the water.

Among the events at the games will be the 1m and 3m springboard events, together with the 10m platform event with its spectacular twists, turns and somersaults. The result of each event is determined by a panel of judges who will score each dive, splitting it into the approach and starting position, the take-off, the flight through the air, and the entry into the water.

Each diver performs multiple dives, with the panel of seven judges giving each dive a mark out of ten. When a diver has completed all their dives, the top two and bottom two scores are discarded. The remaining three are added together and multiplied by the dive’s degree of difficulty, with the highest score claiming the Gold.

In synchronised diving events, the judging panel is made up of 9 judges – three rate each diver on the criteria above, while the remaining six judge how in sync the pairs are.

New Zealand Olympic Diving

The New Zealand divers debuted at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games.

Diving has been represented at 5 Olympiads: Montreal 1976, Los Angeles 1984, Barcelona 1992, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

The first athlete was Rebecca Ewert OLY#345 who competed at the Montreal 1976Olympic Games.

The first male to compete was Mark Graham OLY#439 who debuted at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.

New Zealand only has 7 diving Olympians in their history, 3 male and 4 female.