Teenage sensation Lian Junjie and Si Yajie sparked a golden treble for Chinese divers on Saturday by sweeping to victory in the mixed 10-metre synchro final in Gwangju. Chen Yiwen made it two out of two in the women's one-metre springboard, before Xie Siyi and Cao Yuan completed a Chinese hat-trick in the men's synchro three-metre springboard.
Eighteen-year-old Lian retained the title he won with Rio Olympic champion Ren Qian in Budapest two years ago as he and Si racked up a winning total of 346.14 points - a whopping 35 points clear of their nearest rivals. Russian pair Ekaterina Beliaeva and Viktor Minibaev were distant runners-up on 311.28 points followed by Mexicans Maria Jose Sanchez and Jose Balleza Isaias, who took bronze with 287.64.
Britain's Robyn Birch and Noah Williams narrowly missed out on a medal in the first of three diving finals on Saturday. All 13 diving events count as qualifiers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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