Tom Daley and Matty Lee have claimed gold in the synchronised 10 metres platform in Tokyo.
The duo finished with 471.81 points having never dropped out of the top two, and took the Olympic title 1.23 points ahead of China, with the Russian Olympic Committee third.
It is Daley’s third Olympic medal after he won bronze at the London and Rio Games.
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The pair started well after an inward one-and-a-half somersault pike in the first round and continued their form to lead with two rounds left.
China’s poor dive – a score of 73.44 points was ranked sixth in the fourth round – left the route to gold open for Daley and Lee, PA reports.
They scored 93.96 in the fourth round with an impressive backwards three-and-a-half somersaults pike to take charge.
A fifth dive – a reverse three-and-a-half somersaults tuck – earned 89.76 points to put the pressure on China ahead of the final round.
The British pair were 1.74 points ahead and an impressive forward four-and-half somersault tuck earned them 101.01 points and China could not catch them with their final effort.
Team GB tweeted saying the performance was "faultless" as thousands of others congratulated the pair on Twitter, saying the win was "well-deserved".
Tom, 27, first represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he was Britain's youngest competitor, age 14, and the youngest from any nation to participate in a final.
Tokyo was 23-year-old Matty's Olympic debut, after having won the silver medal in the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform event at the 2017 World Championships. and at the 2019 World Championships.
