Women's 3m Springboard

China

China won the women's 3m springboard a record 13 times at the world aquatics championships. The other five world titles in this event were won by Soviet Union (2), United States (1), Russia (1) and East Germany (1).

These 13 gold medals are a record number by a country in a specific individual event at the world aquatics championships, in any sport.

China won each of the last 10 world titles in the women's 3m springboard, since Yulia Pakhalina's (RUS) victory in 1998. Guo Jingjing (CHN) took silver that year.

China has collected 24 world championships medals in this event. At the start of the 2022 FINA World Championships, the only events in which a country had claimed as many medals at the world aquatics championships were the women's 10m platform diving (26 by China) and the women's 800m freestyle swimming (24 by United States).

Retired Shi Tingmao (CHN) won the women's 3m springboard at the last five global tournaments: at world aquatics championships in 2015, 2017 and 2019, and at the Olympic Games in 2016 and 2020. Wang Hang (CHN), also retired, finished second behind Shi Tingmao at the last three of those tournaments (2017, 2019, 2020).


Other contenders

United States has collected five medals in the women's 3m springboard at the world aquatics championships, but not since a 1-2 finish by Megan Neyer and Christina Seufert in 1982.

Canada has won four world championships medals in this event, all since the start of 2009: silver by Émilie Heymans (2009), two bronze by Jennifer Abel (2011, 2017) and bronze by Pamela Ware (2013).

At the 2019 FINA World Championships, Maddison Keeney (AUS) took bronze in this event. Once before, Australia claimed medals in this event at successive world aquatics championships: bronze by Chantelle Newbery in 1998 and silver by Irina Lashko in 2001.

Nur Dhabitah Sabri (MAS) finished fourth in the women's 3m springboard at Tokyo 2020. She could win Malaysia's first medal in this event at the world aquatics championships.

Tina Punzel (GER) is hoping to achieve Germany's first medal in this event at the world aquatics championships since 1994, when Claudia Bockner took bronze.