Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow kept their heads in a very tense Olympic 10m Synchro final to secure bronze with a strong performance.
Daley and Goodfellow started the final well with a score of 101.40 after their required dives and lay in third place as the competition really heated up with the optional dives.
The Brits scored 81.60 for their Reverse 3 ½ Somersaults tucked and knew they needed to score well in their final two dies.
The pair needed a score in the high 80s to secure their bronze medal after a strong finish from the German pair of Sascha Klein and Patrick Hausding and they didn’t disappoint.
They scored 89.64 for their Back 3 ½ Somersaults piked to finish in third place with a score of 444.45.
Afterwards Daley said, “It was an agonising wait that felt like it was an eternity. We were stood there and knew we had done a good dive but were didn’t know if we’d done enough.
“It was just one of those moments where I knew how I would feel if it came up on the scoreboard that we finished fourth and I knew how I would feel if we finished third.
“We were just waiting and waiting with replay after replay, then all of a sudden the scores came up, I pounced on Dan and I don’t think he was quite ready for it and then before we knew it we were back in for a top bombing seventh dive.
“We knew we had a shot at winning a medal. We’ve only been diving together since October so we’re a new partnership and we didn’t actually expect to qualify for the Olympics.
“But since then we’ve won medals in every world event, World Series, European Championships. Back in the European Championships it was a similar situation going into the last round dive and the Germans pipped us by two points.
“We didn’t want to let that happen again. I said to Dan afterwards, don’t worry we’ll get them at the Olympics. And we did.”
Goodfellow who made his Olympic debut in Rio explained after collecting his medal, “I wasn’t really thinking about Europeans in that last dive. I was just trying to block everything else out.
“I knew before we started that we’d be number eight and I knew no matter what situation we were in there would be loads of pressure going into it.
“So I just accepted that and tried to block everything else out and focus on my dives.
“Our fourth dive wasn’t amazing but towards the back end of our list we have a really high degree of difficulty.
“I knew our last two are our two real big ones and we’d have to nail them.”
Daley will be back in action in the 10m Platform on Friday 19 August.