China win sixth gold medal

Qin and Luo romped to victory with 463.98 points to give the hosts a perfect six golds from six finals after Shi Tingmao had earlier won the women's one metre springboard gold.

Beijing Olympic gold medallist Qin has now won three successive world titles in the men's three-metres springboard synchro event, though the previous two World Championships and the Olympic gold were with Wang Feng.

Russia's Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov clinched silver after scoring 100.32 points with their final dive to finish on 451.89 while Mexico's Yahel Castillo and Julian Sanchez took bronze (437.61).

The Russian pair's final dive, a forward four and half somersault, was executed to near perfection to vault them past both the American duo Kristian Ipsen and Troy Dumais (429.06) as well as Castillo and Sanchez.

Ipsen and Dumais had been in second place entering the final round, though with only a slim lead of less than one point over the Mexicans.

However, their synchronisation was off in their last effort and they failed to garner enough points to catch Castillo and Sanchez, then watched as the Russian duo blew them out of medal contention.

"The timing was not very good and we were a little off," Ipsen said.

"Of course we want to win a medal. We'll do better in the Olympics. We should improve the synchronicity and we should work together more."

Earlier, Shi's victory was the fifth of the competition for the Chinese after she totalled 318.65 points. Compatriot Wang Han finished second (310.20), while Italy's Tania Cagnotto clinched bronze (295.45).

"It was not an easy win," Shi said. "Actually I was a little nervous, but I managed to control myself. My aim was to perform to my normal level and I did it.

My opponents also made some mistakes.

"It's my honour to compete for my country (and) it's the most important gold in my diving career. I will train harder to earn more chances to compete for China."