Paris Olympics: Britain’s Tom Daley takes fifth Olympic diving medal but China grabs gold

Tom Daley wins emotional silver with partner Noah Williams in men's synchronised 10m platform at Tokyo Olympics.

Britain’s Tom Daley was dethroned as Olympic champion on July 29 but took an emotional silver medal with partner Noah Williams in the men’s synchronised 10m platform behind China’s Lian Junjie and Yang Hao.

It was a fifth medal in five Olympics for 30-year-old Daley, who won gold with Matty Lee in the same event at the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Games three years ago.

Lian and Yang, who have won at the last three world championships, established their dominance with their first dive and never looked like giving up the lead.

They finished with a score of 490.35, ahead of Daley and Williams on 463.44, and Canada’s Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray on 422.13.

Daley and Williams were locked in a battle for second with the Canadian pair but pulled away over the second half of the competition.

It was an emotional medal for both of the Britons, but especially for Williams who was choked by tears as he recalled his former coach Dave Jenkins, who died in 2021 after the last Olympics in Tokyo.

Daley, whose father Rob died of cancer in 2011, told the BBC: “I’ve never seen Noah cry in my whole life, I know how much today means to him.