Rio 2016: Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow win bronze medal for Team GB in men's synchronised 10 metres
The pair finished with 444.45 points after a tense wait before the result was confirmed
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Your support makes all the difference.Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow won Olympic bronze in the men's synchronised 10 metres platform final for Great Britain in Rio.
Daley and Goodfellow added Olympic bronze to Team GB's tally on Monday night. China's Chen Aisen and Lin Yue won gold with 496.98 points as David Boudia and Steel Johnson of the United States took silver with 457.11 points.
Daley and Goodfellow finished with 444.45 points after a tense wait before the result was confirmed.
Daley was appearing in his third Olympics. He placed eighth in the event when aged 14 in Beijing in 2008, despite a bust-up with partner Blake Aldridge.
Pete Waterfield and Daley combined to place fourth at the London 2012 Games, when the Plymouth diver won bronze in the individual 10m platform. The individual event begins on August 19 and 22-year-old Daley is targeting gold.
He will be boosted by a surprise bronze alongside Goodfellow. Goodfellow, from Cambridge, had moved into Daley's London home for five weeks in the build-up to the Rio Games to try to solidify their partnership on and off the boards. The pair had won European silver in May, and it might have been gold had 19-year-old Goodfellow not erred in the final round.
Daley was in buoyant mood on arrival in Rio following the squad's Florida training camp. And he was even keen for some British weather in Rio. It was overcast and blustery, so the Plymouth diver got what he wished for in the outdoor venue.
Diving last of the eight teams, Daley and Goodfellow were in medal contention throughout. The pair were third after the first three of six dives, but their fourth dive, a reverse three and a half somersaults with tuck scored 81.60 as they slipped to fifth.
Their penultimate dive - a forward four and a half somersaults with tuck - scored the highest degree of difficulty in their repertoire at 3.7. But they delivered, scoring 92.13, to return to a provisional podium position, behind China and the United States, but ahead of Germany and Mexico.
Just a back three and a half somersaults with pike was to come, with the Britons again diving last, would know exactly what they had to do. They needed more than 83.61 and scored 89.64 to leapfrog the German duo, who finished fourth.
Additional reporting by PA.
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