How Is Individual Diving Scored?
There are four individual diving events at the Olympics: 3m springboard and 10m platform, for both men and women. These competitions occur across three rounds. Each round consists of five dives, and athletes are required to perform a different type of dive each time, chosen from six categories . Dives are assigned a degree of difficulty based on factors such as approach, entry, position, somersaults, and twists., on a scale of 0 to 10, down to half-point increments.
For synchronized diving, the judging panel is comprised of 11 judges: five judging synchronization and three each assigned to evaluate each individual diver. Judges assign scores on the same 0 to 10 point scale as the individual events. The highest and lowest synchronization scores are discarded, as are the top and bottom scores for each individual diver. The remaining five scores are added together and multiplied by 3/5, then multiplied again by the difficulty score to award a dive score.
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