When Jack Laugher topped the podium in the men’s 3m synchro event in Rio eight years ago, he and partner Tom Mears were taking British diving into waters new, delivering the country’s first ever Olympic gold medal in the sport.
Alongside Games debutant Anthony Harding, there was not quite a repeat here in Paris, but a bronze medal still wrote fresh history for a group of athletes that, in the space of one generation, has gone from being a contingent on the fringes of Team GB success to a key cog in the medal factory’s whirr.
