Jack Laugher picked up his second gold medal of these Commonwealth Games with victory with Anthony Harding in the 3metre synchronised springboard final on Friday.
Laugher and Harding became a new pairing in the wake of the Tokyo Olympics and came within a whisker of upstaging the dominant Chinese and winning gold at the recent World Championships.
It marked them out as the clear favourites at Birmingham 2022 and they lived up to that billing to dominate the final.
For Laugher, who had won 1m springboard gold in the individual competition on Thursday, it was a seventh Commonwealth title.
He has the chance of a hat-trick of titles in the individual 3m in which he is the defending champion and an Olympic gold medallist at the 2016 Olympics.
The pair’s performance was not quite of the calibre of their World Championships display but their final two dives were of a difficulty rating so much higher than the rest of the field – a 3.8 and 3.9 - that it kept them well clear of the rest of the field.
