European Aquatics Championships: Spendolini-Sirieix and Toulson win second diving golds

British divers Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson won their second gold medals of the European Championships when they teamed up in the women's synchronised 10m platform.

Competing together for the first time in Rome, they amassed 303.60 points, with their final dive securing the title for them with a score of 72.96.

A further medal was to follow on the penultimate day in Rome as Jordan Houlden won 3m springboard silver, but Jack Laugher missed out on the podium in fifth.

Laugher, a two-time Olympic and three-time world medallist in the event, scored fewer than 50 points with three of his six dives as Italy won gold and bronze.

Houlden, 24, won silver - his first individual European medal - with a total of 428.55 points, 25.30 shy of newly crowned champion Lorenzo Marsaglia.

Spendolini-Sirieix 'ready for summer'

Spendolini-Sirieix capped a memorable few weeks with a second European title as she and Toulson, 22, finished 4.74 points ahead of Ukraine's silver medallists.

Germany won bronze, with Italy missing out in a field of four pairs.

Their victory came just weeks after Spendolini-Sirieix - the daughter of TV personality Fred Sirieix - won two gold medals and a silver at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

"I'm so happy to finish the season with Lois by my side, it was a great last dive and I'm ready for summer," she told BBC Sport.

Toulson added: "We've been quite lucky that this was our first time together.

"We've literally done those dives once before the competition and for it to go that well it proves to us that we are pretty good."

For 17-year-old Spendolini-Sirieix, it marks a third medal of the Championships, having won the individual 10m title earlier in the week as well as mixed team bronze.

On Tuesday, Toulson, 22, took European gold in the mixed synchronised 10m platform event with British team-mate Kyle Kothari.

'Mindblowing' - Houlden caps breakthrough year

Houlden was in fourth place after round two of the men's 3m springboard before a stellar third-round effort catapulted him up the standings.

That dive, a reverse three-and-a-half somersaults in tuck, tied for the best of the competition with a score of 84.00.

It marks the end of a breakthrough season for Houlden, in which he also won two medals at the Commonwealth Games.

"It feels absolutely mindblowing. This is probably the best year I've had so far, hopefully there is more to come," he told BBC Sport.

"Now I'm finished for the season so I get to rest for a bit, have a bit of time off."

Laugher, meanwhile, led after two rounds but a third-round score of 49.30 saw him slip down.

He made amends on dive four, scoring 79.20, but it wasn't enough as further errors crept into his performance.

The 27-year-old is back on the boards on Sunday, competing in the men's synchronised 3m springboard with Anthony Harding.

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