The Chinese pair of Liang Huo and Ye Lin has won the last diving final of the 13th FINA World Championships by capturing the Synchro 10m Platform. This medal gives Team China an overall victory in Rome with 7 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals after the completion of the programme.

David Boudia and Thomas Fincham of the USA finished in second place 25.74 points behind China. Jose Antonio Guerra Oliva and Jeinkler Ernesto Aguirre Manso scored 456.60 – just 0.24 less than silver medallists.

Jingjing Guo and Minxia Wu (CHN) have given China its sixth diving gold of these World Championships today. Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape (ITA) came second almost 19 points ahead of Yulia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova (RUS). It was Guo’s 10th consecutive gold medal at the World Championships in 3m springboard (both individual and synchro).

Chong He (CHN) has proved his superiority on 3m springboard again today at the 13th FINA World Championships. He, who won this event a year ago at the Beijing Olympic Games, took the title over US veteran and silver medalist Troy Dumais, while Alexandre Despatie (CAN) took third. This victory gives Chong He his fourth World Championships medal, as he won the 3m synchro gold and 3m individual bronze in 2005, as well as a gold in the 10m platform in 2003.

Another sensation of these Championships happened today on the 10m Platform today: 15 year old Thomas Daley (GBR) won gold for the first time in his life at the World Championships.

Before synchronised diving was included on the programme of the World Championships (it happened for the first time in 1998 in Perth) the men's platform used to be the last event of every competition, as the most spectacular and exciting discipline. This was logical: the highest marks were more common to 10m men's platform, as were as the most complicated dives. Even the cleanest entries one could find here – on the 10m platform.

Jingjing Guo (CHN) got her 10th gold medal from FINA World Championships on Tuesday with a brilliant victory on the women’s 3m springboard. This unique diver has been proving her strength at every World Championships since 2001, and this victory represents her fifth title in this particular event. She is the only diver in the history of the Championships (both among men and women) to have acquired five titles in the same event, and even better, she has gained these titles successively.

The last final of the day – women’s 10m platform synchro - brought a victory to Ruolin Chen and Xin Wang (CHN). China has now won this event at every World Championships since 1991, except for once in 1998 when Olena Zhupina and Svetlana Serbina of Ukraine defeated China in Perth.

Since the 1m springboard has been included on the programme of FINA World Championships in 1991, it has been the most “non-Chinese” event of all the diving disciplines: China got victories in this event only in 1991 and 1994 and two years ago in Melbourne. The gold medals of the other four Championships went to Blythe Hartley (CAN) in 2001 and 2005 and Irina Lashko in 1998 and 2003. Lashko’s triumphs, moreover, were acquired under unique circumstances: her first gold was captured under the Russian flag, the second – under the Australian.

Qin Kai and Wang Feng (CHN) captured the second gold of the Championships for China’s diving team on the evening of Saturday, July 18 with a 22.35-point advantage over their closest rivals – Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen (USA). Alexander Despatie and Reuben Ross (CAN) finished third.

The Chinese team’s representatives, who won overall at the previous World Championships in Melbourne in 2007, as well as the 2008 Olympics, were the strong favourites of the event. Despite their victor however, the Chinese divers didn’t bring their best to the preliminaries: Qin Kai made an obvious mistake in the last round (2.5 Reverse with 1.5 Twists) and consequently the Chinese duo took 4th place overall

The second diving final (women’s 10m platform) of the 13th FINA World Championships in Rome (ITA) was an unbelievable sensation: 23 year old Paola Espinosa (MEX) captured gold while leaving the two-time Olympic gold medallist Ruolin Chen (CHN) in her wake. The bronze medal was collected by Li Kang (CHN). This is the first gold medal (all disciplines included) for Mexico in the history of the FINA World Championships (held since 1973).

The 13th FINA World Championships of Rome finally got underway this evening when some of the world’s finest divers engaged in a battle for the 1m springboard title. This first final ended with complete success for China, whose two divers in this showdown – Olympic champion Qin Kai and Xinhua Zhang – collected the gold and silver medals with total scores of 449.00 and 445.90 respectively. Matthew Mitcham (AUS) – the 10m platform Olympic champion – took the bronze after trailing Kai in second for most of the final. Kai swept the gold with relative ease, and Mitcham – with a graceful series of dives - was the only diver presenting obvious opposition. Both champions delighted the audience with their skills. Zhang’s silver medal sequence was more of a creeping conquest, as he improved with every round until he reached the top three. Beyond these winners, a notable performance was had by the fourth-place Great Britain’s Peter Waterfield (432.60).