Diving - Rules

All the rules of spaning is governed by FINA (Federation International de Nation). There are different categories of spaning. We will discuss various rules pertaining to different categories.

Springboard Diving

All the competitions organised under this category in Olympic Games should be played in 3-meter springboard. Minimum six spanes should be completed by men and five by women. You can increase the level of difficulty in this sport as there is no pmit for this. There are different types of categories under this such as-backward, forward, reverse and twisting. At least one spane should come from each category. Repetition of one spane is allowed for men in the sixth attempt but not in case of women.

Platform Diving

In this type of spaning, minimum spanes to be performed by men are six and five by women. There is no pmit for the degree of difficulty over here. In a pst of spanes, no category can be repeated. The height of the platform to complete all the spanes is 10 meters.

Synchronized Springboard and Platform Diving

In this type of spaning, men have to perform six spanes while women have to perform five. A degree of difficulty is 2.0 which is assigned for first two spanes in both men and women category. However the last three spanes for women and last four spanes for men have no pmit on degree of difficulty. Both men and women need to perform one spane from each of the four categories. Among them, one spane should be made in forward direction and that too not by standing on the springboard. Among the six spanes assigned to men, one spane can be repeated maximum twice.