Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.
The 2026 World Aquatics Diving World Cup Super Final will be held at Beijing’s Water Cube, featuring elite divers from 16 nations competing from Friday through Sunday. The event schedule includes synchronized events and the mixed team final on Friday, men's 3m springboard and women's 10m platform on Saturday, and concludes Sunday with women’s 3m and men’s 10m platform events.
China, as the host nation, is expected to be highly competitive. The team features experienced athletes such as Chen Yiwen, 26, specializing in the 3m springboard, and Chen Yuxi, 20, a 10m platform diver, both with 11 Olympic and world championship victories. The men’s lineup includes Wang Zongyuan, an 11-time world and Olympic champion on 3m, and Lian Junjie, who holds six world and Olympic titles in men’s 10m synchronized events. China also demonstrates depth with several medalists as young as 13 to 16 years old.
Among international competitors, men’s 3m springboard world champion Osmar Olvera Ibarra from Mexico and men’s 10m platform world champion Cassiel Rousseau from Australia are headliners. Great Britain’s Jack Laugher, a four-time Olympic medalist aged 31, will compete in men’s 3m synchronized diving with Anthony Harding, 25. Laugher recently resumed training after a wrist injury and helped his team secure a bronze medal in synchronized 3m at the World Cup in Canada earlier this year.
The previous World Cup in Montreal saw China sweep all nine gold medals and four silver medals in individual events, highlighting their dominance. Other notable results included Olvera Ibarra’s silver in men's 3m synchronized diving with Juan Manuel Celaya Hernandez, and bronze medals by the Cueva Lobato twins in the same event.