Commonwealth Games 2018: Jack Laugher completes gold medal hat-trick

Laugher and Chris Mears, the Olympic champions, triumphed in the men's synchronised 3m springboard

Matt McGeehan
Friday 13 April 2018 14:36 BST
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Jack Laugher made it a hat-trick alongside teammate Chris Mears
Jack Laugher made it a hat-trick alongside teammate Chris Mears (Getty)

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Tom Daley won his fourth Commonwealth Games gold medal before Jack Laugher completed a Gold Coast hat-trick with his fifth on Friday night.

Daley and Dan Goodfellow won the men's synchronised 10-metres platform event for England before Grace Reid claimed Scotland's first diving gold medal in 60 years by winning the women's one-metre springboard title.

Laugher and Chris Mears, the Olympic champions, then triumphed in the men's synchronised 3m springboard, successfully defending the title they won at Glasgow 2014 to give Laugher a third gold from these Games.

"Today's been one of the best in English diving history," said Laugher, the individual 1m and 3m springboard champion. I've dived brilliantly over these past three days, but it hasn't been easy at all.

"When you're Olympic champion, Olympic silver medallist, world medallist, people expect you to win. That's difficult. To have all those pressures and to deliver, it feels brilliant."

The English pair scored 436.17 as silver went to Canada's Philippe Gagne and Francois Imbeau-Dulac (415.23) and bronze to Australia's Domonic Bedggood and Matthew Carter (408.12).

Mears, now a synchronised specialist, felt a responsibility to step up and help Laugher, his best friend and housemate, complete his treble.

Mears and Laugher claimed gold
Mears and Laugher claimed gold (AFP)

"It's what I came out here to do," he said. "I was pretty nervous coming into this. I felt a lot of pressure being Olympic champion, previous Commonwealth champion, to bring it out of the bag and not let my mate down for the big triple."

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