Matty Lee and injured Noah Williams win Commonwealth Games gold in synchro 10m platform

English pair Matty Lee and Noah Williams won the men’s synchronised 10m platform in dramatic circumstances as Williams overcame an injured ankle to limp away with gold.

Lee, an Olympic champion in the event, and individual Commonwealth silver medallist Williams were the faouvrite coming into the final but were pushed all the way to the final dive by Canada’s Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray. There Williams shook off the pain that scuppered their fourth round dive to produce an immaculate 4 1/2 somersaults worth a title clinching 84.36. The Canadians finished with silver, and Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau and Domonic Bedggood won bronze.

It followed Canada’s 21-year-old Mia Vallee winning gold in the women’s 1m springboard ahead of Australia’s Brittany O’Brien, as English teenager Amy Rollinson earned an impressive bronze medal.

“I was just expecting to turn up and have a bit of experience, so to get this is crazy,” said Rollinson, of Luton Diving Club, who revealed she never once looked at her rivals or the leaderboard. “I’ve never bothered looking at what everyone else is doing… I genuinely think the crowd helped, just standing on the board it was so nice to hear people cheering you to do well.”

Earlier Jack Laugher collected his second gold medal of these Commonwealth Games as he and England teammate Anthony Harding dominated the synchronised 3m springboard final.

Laugher and Harding were leading after the opening two mandatory dives and then motored into the distance with their final four dives, set at a much higher degree of difficulty than the rest. Malaysia’s Gabriel Gilbert Daim and Muhammad Syafiq Bin Puteh won silver as Australia’s Samuel Fricker and Shixin Li – who finished second to Laugher’s gold in the 1m springboard final on Thursday – won bronze.

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