For individual diving the top twelve from the 2011 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2012 Diving World Cup will qualify a quota spot.
For the pairs events the top three from the world championships, the top four from the world cup and the hosts qualify.
[1] Italy United States Ukraine Malaysia For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
China (He Chong) Russia (Ilya Zakharov) Russia (Evgeny Kuznetsov) China (Qin Kai) United States (Troy Dumais) Mexico (Yahel Castillo) France (Matthieu Rosset) Great Britain (Jack Laugher) Spain (Javier Illana García) Mexico (Julián Sánchez) Malaysia (Bryan Nickson) Ukraine (Oleksiy Pryhorov) Australia (Ethan Warren) Ukraine (Illya Kvasha) Germany (Sascha Klein) Canada (Alexandre Despatie) United States (Chris Colwill) Italy (Michele Benedetti) Canada (Reuben Ross) Japan (Sho Sakai) Japan (Ken Terauchi) Great Britain (Chris Mears) Brazil (César Castro) Venezuela (Edickson Contreras) Greece (Stefanos Paparounas) Italy (Tommaso Rinaldi) Netherlands (Yorick de Bruijn) Colombia (Sebastián Villa) Venezuela (Robert Paez) France (Damien Cely) China (Qiu Bo) United States (David Boudia) Germany (Sascha Klein) Russia (Victor Minibaev) Great Britain (Thomas Daley) United States (Nick McCrory) Mexico (Iván García) Ukraine (Oleksandr Bondar) Canada (Riley McCormick) China (Zhou Lüxin) Great Britain (Peter Waterfield) Ukraine (Kostyantyn Milyayev) Sweden (Christofer Eskilsson) Australia (Matthew Mitcham) Mexico (German Sánchez) Germany (Martin Wolfram) Cuba (José Guerra) Colombia (Sebastián Villa) Brazil (Hugo Parisi) Belarus (Vadim Kaptur) Russia (Gleb Galperin) Italy (Francesco Dell'Uomo) Cuba (Jeinkler Aguirre) Italy (Andrea Chiarabini) South Korea (Park Ji-ho) Belarus (Timofei Hordeichik) Canada (Eric Sehn) Norway (Amund Gismervik) Colombia (Victor Ortega) Sweden (Jesper Tolvers) North Korea (Ri Hyon-ju) China (Wu Minxia) China (He Zi) Canada (Jennifer Abel) United States (Christina Loukas) Australia (Sharleen Stratton) Mexico (Laura Sánchez) United States (Kelci Bryant) Ukraine (Anna Pysmenska) Italy (Tania Cagnotto) Russia (Nadezhda Bazhina) Germany (Uschi Freitag) Canada (Émilie Heymans) Germany (Nora Subschinski) Malaysia (Cheong Jun Heong) Great Britain (Rebecca Gallantree) Ukraine (Olena Fedorova) Mexico (Vianney Hernández) Venezuela (Joselyn Castillo) Russia (Anastasia Pozdniakova) Great Britain (Hannah Starling) Italy (Francesca Dallape) Malaysia (Ng Yan Yee) France (Marion Farissier) Brazil (Juliana Veloso) France (Fanny Bouvet) Netherlands (Inge Jansen) Hungary (Flora Gondos) Hungary (Nora Barta) Spain (Jenifer Benitez) China (Chen Ruolin) China (Hu Yadan) Mexico (Paola Espinosa) Canada (Meaghan Benfeito) Malaysia (Pandelela Rinong) Ukraine (Iuliia Prokopchuk) Australia (Alex Croak) Canada (Roseline Filion) Great Britain (Tonia Couch) United States (Brittany Viola) Russia (Yulia Koltunova) Germany (Nora Subschinski) Germany (Christin Steuer) Mexico (Carolina Mendoza) Great Britain (Monique Gladding) Japan (Mai Nakagawa) Malaysia (Traisy Vivien Tukiet) North Korea (Kim Un-Hyang) United States (Haley Ishimatsu) South Korea (Kim Su-ji) North Korea (Kim Jin-ok) Italy (Brenda Spaziani) France (Audrey Labeau) Cuba (Annia Rivera) ^1 Only two athletes per nation can qualify, meaning if there are less than eighteen athletes the remaining quota spots will go to the additional pool.