China have completed their show of dominance in the diving pool this afternoon, collecting eight out of eight gold medals.

After topping the podium in the men’s 10m platform this afternoon, they now have Olympic champions in each of the eight events.

But even after a complete clean sweep, their dominance is somehow even more impressive than it first appears.

After sending a ten strong diving team to the Olympic games in Paris, all of them have come away with a gold around their necks thanks to the synchronisation events.

Half of the team have come away with more than one medal each, with two divers winning gold twice over, two claiming a gold and silver, and one a gold and a bronze.

This would put China in 11th place on the medal table just from diving medals alone. Currently China sit in first with 37 golds in total.

In fact out of twelve medal opportunities, they have collected eleven.

Only the final diving event – the men’s 10m platform – saw them fail to put two divers on the podium. While reigning Olympic champion Cao Yuan claimed gold again, Yang Hao finished last after a series of errors due to a hand injury. Yang, however, had already claimed gold in the men’s 10m syncro earlier in the games, alongside Lian Junjie.

The final event in the only purpose built venue for this games proved dramatic for all of the twelve divers who made it to the final.

The initial qualifying round was particular low scoring, with 12th place Noah Williams barely breaking 400 points when usually 500 would be needed to make it to the final.

At times it looked like the 17-year-old from Japan, Tamai Rikuto, may take away China’s chances of the golden clean sweep. He eventually took silver.

Yang Hao, despite qualifying second, found himself in 12th place after six rounds of dives.

It also completes an historic games for the successful team GB diving team.

Great Britain managed to collect five medals out of eight events, including four bronzes and a silver.

Medalling in every synchro event, it also saw the first diving medals won by women since 1960, breaking a 64-year absence of British women from the diving medal podium.

This record was broken by Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen on day one of the games, also breaking the 24-year drought of Team GB finishing the first day without a medal.

Noah Williams also become the only member of the diving team to take home two medals, adding a bronze in the 10m platform to his synchro silver in the same height alongside partner Tom Daley.