Tokyo Olympics: Team GB endures disastrous attempt to defend men’s 3m synchronised diving title

Team GB’s Jack Laugher endures disastrous attempt to defend men’s synchronised 3m diving title after finishing seventh with partner Dan Goodfellow… as dominant China take gold ahead of USA and Germany

Team GB laboured in a poor performance in the men’s synchronised 3m diving final with Jack Laugher and Dan Goodfellow both finishing well out of medal contention.

Laugher was part of a pair that won Olympic gold in Rio five years ago, but along with Goodfellow never even looked like getting a medal as the duo laboured near the bottom for much of the contest before finishing seventh out of the eight contenders.

The pair struggled throughout the competition and only a failed dive from the Russian Olympic Committee team prevented them from finishing bottom of the field, having been looking to at least medal ahead of the contest. 

Dan Goodfellow and Jack Laugher struggled to produce their best in the 3m diving final

China dominated the contest to take gold ahead of USA and Germany.

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MEN’S DIVING 3M SYNCHRO FINAL

1. China (Wang Zongyuan; Xie Siyi), 467.82

2. United States (Andrew Capobianco; Mike Hixon), 444.36

3. Germany (Patrick Hausding; Lars Rudiger), 404.73

4. Mexico (Yahel Castillo Huerta; Juan Manuel Celaya Hernandez), 400.14

5. Japan (Sho Sakai; Ken Terauchi), 393.93

6. Italy (Lorenzo Marsaglia; Giovanni Tocci), 388.05

7. Britain (Daniel Goodfellow; Jack Laugher), 382.80

8. ROC (Evgenii Kuznetsov; Nikita Shleikher), 331.08

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