Matty Lee and Noah Williams soared to Great Britain’s best-ever World Championship result in the men’s 10m synchro, with silver in Budapest on another action-packed day.
Lee, who won Olympic gold alongside Tom Daley last summer, and Williams, who competed in the individual event in Tokyo, scored 427.71 for their six dives.
Their trip to podium came just two hours after teammate Jack Laugher secured his second medal of the Championships, with bronze in the men’s 3m springboard.
Like Laugher, Lee and Williams were soundly beaten by the Chinese, with Junjie Lian and Hao Yang taking gold.
But six excellent dives in their first World Championship as a pair, including a brilliant score of 85.47 with their last, saw them stay in second for most of the competition.
The result beats the bronze medals won by Daley and Lee in 2019 and Leon Taylor and Pete Waterfield in 2005.
The pair have quite a way to go if they are to match Laugher’s haul of six World Championship medals.
🇬🇧 diver Jack Laugher admits he suffered “flashbacks” to previous errors during this World final, but still pulled through to claim a 💪🏼 bronze.
— Nick Hope - the athlete’s journalist 👨💻🏊🏻♂️ (@NickHopeTV) June 28, 2022
That’s individual 🥉& synchro 🥈 so it’s perfectly set up for the 1m…
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It was hardly a foregone conclusion for the Harrogate ace, who slipped to sixth after his fourth dive scored just 37.80.
But he rebounded brilliantly with dives of 91.20 and 97.50 in rounds five and six to back up the silver he won alongside Anthony Harding in the synchro on Sunday.
China's Zongyuan Wang took gold with 561.95 points and Yuan Cao silver with 492.85, while Laugher scored a total of 473.30.
"I'm at the stage now where I don't really care too much what the colour of the medal is - obviously I'd love for it to be gold. But I base my happiness with my performance off how the performance has gone itself," said Laugher.
"After the fourth dive, to be honest, it was a case of looking in the mirror and being like, 'focus up Jack, you can still get this'. I like to look at the scoreboard, I saw after the fourth dive that I was only 22 points behind and I knew my last two dives were my big dives and if I did well, I could get there again.
"But obviously the Colombian was holding me pretty well and there was a lot of fight there as well. There's lots of good things, lots of bad things, it's the first competition, we'll move on.
"If you'd have said to me at the start of the week that I'd have a silver and a bronze, I'd have been ecstatic. I'm really pleased with my performance in the synchro, there are some things to work on in the 3m, but I've still got that chance on the 1m. It's going to be a tough competition, it's a tough schedule here this week but I look forward to it."