Team Ireland has officially selected two divers who will compete in the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer. For the first time in history, an Irish female diver will be competing at the Games, following the qualification of Tanya Watson in the Women’s 10m Platform.
Ollie Dingley will be competing in his second Games, in the Men’s 3m Springboard event. Irish interest in the diving competition takes place in the purpose-built Tokyo Aquatics Centre from 2 – 5 August 2021.
In diving, the athletes must complete six dives in a preliminary round, with each dive being scored by seven judges based on the execution. Once all the scores are added together, the top two and bottom two are eliminated, with the remaining three scores added together and multiplied by the degree of difficulty rating of the dive, which gives the total.
Dingley qualified for the Final at rio 2016, bring both himself and the sport to a wider audience than ever before. Everyone will remember the algae that coloured the water green in the diving pool and was the sports story of the day for 24 hours.
“It’s a real privilege to represent Ireland at my second Olympic Games,” he said. “I feel very lucky that we can get to go and compete at the Olympics after what has been a very uncertain time for everybody. This will be my third competition in over two years, and I really just can’t wait to get out there and compete and do my best.”
“It’s great to see us qualify the two divers, recognising that Tanya has made history, by becoming the first Irish female diver to compete at the Olympic Games, but also pleasingly, she has progressed from our Youth Olympic team of 2018,” added Team Ireland Chef de Mission for Tokyo 2020, Tricia Heberle.
“For Ollie, this will be his second Games, with his fantastic performance in the finals in Rio being one of the Irish sporting highlights of the Games. We know it has been a challenging qualifying pathway and we are very excited to support them both.”
“We’re all thrilled to see this talented team of two selected to compete in diving at the Games,” said Swim Ireland Performance Director Jon Rudd.
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