Chris Mears and Jack Laugher celebrate their win.
Diving duo Chris Mears and Jack Laugher powered Team GB to their third gold medals of 2016 after a stunning day in Rio.
The divers, members of Leeds Dive Club, produced a sparkling display to secure victory in the men's synchronised 3m springboard.
It is the first Olympic diving gold GB have ever won.
Mears and Laugher previously won World Championships bronze in 2015, Commonwealth gold in 2014 and European gold in May.
Mears, who hails from Reading, competed in the London 2012 Games when he was a member of the Southampton Diving Academy.
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