Britain’s Jack Laugher has qualified in final position for the individual 3m springboard final – five days after winning gold in the synchronised event.
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Chinese diver Yuan Cao led the way, qualifying with a dive to spare, after posting a score of 489.10 points.
He won 3m synchro gold with Chris Mears, the same gong Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow picked up in the 10m synchro.
Oliver Dingley produced a fine series of dives to exceed expectations with an eighth-placed finish for Ireland.
That medal was Britain’s 50th of the Games so far, although the chances of it happening earlier in the day looked very remote indeed as Laugher struggled through the initial stages of the competition. “I have been rising each year but obviously doing it is a completely different story”.
Laugher’s final total of 523.85 compared to 547.60 for Cao, while Germany’s Patrick Hausding finished with 498.90 to take bronze.
“There are so many nerves, pressure and weather conditions around these Olympics, it is really hard to get on the board and do it and I showed that in the semi-final in the morning”, he added.
“Once I was in this final I had nothing to lose really, it was all about just concentrating on me”.
“It was a monumental effort by Laugher”.
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“But it doesn’t matter, he has come out this evening and delivered”.
