About the Diving World Championships

The World Diving Championships are part of the World Aquatics Championships, which after the pandemic period in 2020 are held every other year in odd-numbered years. In addition to diving, the World Aquatics Championships also include swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, open water swimming and high platform diving.

The first FINA World Championships were held in 1973. It is remarkably late that World Aquatics competitions arose, as diving has, for example, been on the Olympic program since the third Olympic Games in St. Louis in 1904. Therefore, the world elite could only meet at the Olympics every four years until 1973.

Below a number of development points related to the Diving World Championships [2]:

• Diving was on the World Championships program from the start in 1973, with both men and women competing from the 3-meter springboard and from the 10-meter platform.
• In 1991, the program was expanded to include diving from the 1-meter springboard for both women and men.
• In 1998, four synchronized diving competitions were also added to the program, namely for both women and men on both the 3-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform.
• Even later, the program was expanded to include three mixed disciplines - a team competition and a synchronized diving discipline for both the 3-meter and 10-meter disciplines. The mixed disciplines were added to the program in 2015 and the full World Championships programme therefore includes 13 diving events (until at least 2025).