This marks the third publication in World Aquatics’ results report series, following last year’s editions on the Paris 2024 Olympic aquatic sports and the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Budapest.
These reports provide everyone, from performance teams and aquatics fans, with valuable insights into the competitions that captured global attention this past July and August during the first World Aquatics Championships held in Southeast Asia. Beyond this, the reports also support World Aquatics’ technical decision-making by offering detailed analyses of performance trends and statistics.
The full sport-by-sport report section from the Singapore 2025 Worlds is available HERE.
Image Source: Zilong Cheng and Zifeng Zhu of China compete in the Men’s 10m Synchronised Final in Singapore (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
The diving competition at the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025 saw 278 athletes from 54 countries compete across 13 events. Six of these were individual competitions – Women’s 1m Springboard, Men’s 1m Springboard, Women’s 3m Springboard, Men’s 3m Springboard, Women’s 10m Platform, and Men’s 10m Platform – and six were synchronised events — Women’s 3m Synchronized, Men’s 3m Synchronized, Women’s 10m Synchronized, Men’s 10m Synchronized, Mixed 3m Synchronized, and Mixed 10m Synchronized.
The 13th diving competition at the 2025 Worlds was the Mixed Team Event. Each team, featuring a mixed-gender lineup, performs a set of dives across a range of heights on the springboard and platform, both in the individual and synchronised disciplines. Over the nine-day programme, athletes executed more than 3,300 competition dives.
China once again dominated the diving medal table with nine golds, three silver and four bronze medal performances. However, this wasn’t the historic golden sweep that Chinese divers achieved at the Paris 2024 Olympics, with rivals from Australia (two golds), Italy and Mexico also standing atop the diving podium in Singapore.
Not surprisingly, considering China’s global diving dominance, Asia also topped the continental medal distribution charts with 19 total medals, followed by Europe (9 medals), the Americas (8 medals) and Oceania (3). While Maha Amer of Egypt won gold in the Women’s 1m Springboard event at the 2024 Worlds in Doha, African divers did not record a medal at the 2025 Worlds in Singapore.
Image Source: When you nail a dive, you know it – immediately. Osmar Olvera Ibarra reacts to his dive in the Men’s 3m Springboard Final in Singapore (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
One of the standout moments came in the Men’s 3m Springboard, where China’s gold-medal streak at the World Championships—unbroken since Melbourne 2007—came to an end. Mexico’s Osmar Olvera Ibarra delivered a stunning performance to defeat triple world champion Wang Zongyuan and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Cao Yuan, securing Mexico’s first-ever world title in the event.
“It’s a dream come true: to be a world champion in an Olympic event,” said Olvera Ibarra, the Men’s 1m Springboard world champion from Doha. “In the morning, I thought, ‘I will be a champion today. Today is the day I get a gold medal.’”
