China finish with 10 diving world golds

China finish with ten diving golds at the world aquatic championships as Wang Han and Yang Hao won the 3m mixed springboard synchro while Qiu Bo took 10m platform gold.

Chinese divers have now matched their gold medal haul from their 2011 campaign when they claimed a perfect 10 from 10 while this time they won 10 from 13 events in Kazan.

Wang and Yang won gold with a winning tally of 339.90 points with Canada's Jennifer Abel and Francois Imbeau-Dulac taking silver with 317.01 pts.

Italy took bronze with 315.30 points as Tania Cagnotto won her third medal of these championships after gold in the 1m springboard final and bronze in the 3m event, as her partner Maicol Verzotto won his first world medal.

Reigning champion Qui became the first man to win four medals in the 10m platform.

After taking silver in 2009 and gold in 2011 and 2013 he claimed victory again on Sunday with 587.00pts.

David Boudia of the USA claimed silver for the third straight championships with 560.20pts.

Britain's Tom Daley won his second medal in Kazan, and his first in this event since his gold medal at the 2009 world championships, by taking bronze with 537.95.
Source: AFP