JACK LAUGHER made history by becoming the first British diver to win more than one medal at a world championships as he claimed three-metres springboard bronze in Kazan.
The 20-year-old followed up his 3m synchro-bronze with Chris Mears by making the podium again with a score of 528.90.
He finished behind China's gold medallist He Chao (555.05) and Russia's Olympic champion Ilia Zakharov (547.60).
Laugher's achievement makes him the first Briton to make the podium in an individual springboard event at a world championships and only the second, after Tom Daley, to win an individual medal.
He was understandably delighted with the result. "I'm really happy to get a world bronze and the second medal of this trip," said Laugher.
"It was a rock solid competition. Everyone was bouncing off each other and you see those mad scores like we've had today.
"The past year and a half has been absolutely fantastic. I got a bronze at the World Cup in Shanghai, followed by two Commonwealth medals as well, then being overall World Series champion. And a bronze today as well – I'm getting more confident with every competition I do and I'm still young.
"I've learned a lot from this and moving on to Rio [the 2016 Olympics], hopefully I can put those experiences and lessons into plan. Hopefully it's going to snowball and make me a better diver and a better competitor.
"I've been training hard throughout this year and it's time for a break, but I'm really proud of what I've done this year and everything has gone the way I wanted it."
Great Britain, who also won gold in the mixed team event through Rebecca Gallantree and Daley, have now made Kazan their most successful world championships with three medals.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article