Divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen won Team GB’s first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics with a dramatic bronze in the women’s synchronised 3m springboard.

The pair were in tears at the end of the competition as they snatched Britain’s first female diving medal at an Olympics for 64 years behind China and the United States.

They were sixth with two dives to go and fourth before the final dive but an excellent final effort moved them into third.

Australia looked set for bronze at worst, but a horrible mistake on their final dive meant they failed to overhaul Harper and Mew Jensen.

Londoner Mew Jensen, competing at her second Olympics, had struggled with a back injury in the run-up to the Games which limited her to just a month’s preparation, and her stunned expression soon turned to tears of joy after the Australian error.

“Right place, right time,” Britain’s Olympic silver medallist Leon Taylor said on BBC TV.

“That’s what happens in diving. What an incredible competition.”

Gold for world champions Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen was rarely in doubt in an impressive performance which sealed a sixth consecutive gold for China in this event.

America’s Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook took silver.