China have made it 7 out of 7 in diving gold at the Paris Olympics — just one to go for an unprecedented sweep of all eight diving gold medals in the Games.

Chen Yiwen won the women's 3m springboard on Friday for China's seventh gold medal. Maddison Keeney of Australia took silver, with bronze going to Chang Yani of China.

It was Chen's second gold in Paris after winning earlier in the 3m synchronised with partner Chang.

Both divers were cheered on by a large Chinese crowd waving China's red-and-yellow flag and shouting “jiayou, jiayou” — roughly translated as “let's go” — each time they prepared to dive.

No Americans qualified for the final 12. The sweep could happen Saturday in the final diving session of the Olympics with the men's 10m platform.

Darja best

Germany's Darja Varfolomeev won the gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final on Friday, becoming the first athlete from her country to win the title.

It was also the first time Germany has taken a medal in rhythmic gymnastics at all since Regina Weber took the bronze before reunification at the Los Angeles 1984 Games. Varfolomeev scored 142.850 points overall, 2.250 ahead of Bulgaria's Boryana Kaleyn who took the silver.

Varfolomeev did not celebrate her victory immediately even as the German supporters cheered. Instead, looking sombre, she walked to her compatriot Margarita Kolosov to console her for losing out on bronze to Italy's Sofia Raffaeli.

World record Karlos Nasar of Bulgaria won the weightlifting gold and broke two world records on Friday, just over a year after a hotel sink fell on him and severed his left Achilles tendon.

Nasar was showering the night before an awards ceremony in May 2023 when he reached for shampoo and pressed down, causing the sink to fall out of the wall and onto him.

After undergoing emergency surgery and missing six months, he returned in December and set the clean-and-jerk world record that he surpassed in this event.

The 21-year-old Nasar, a Paris native, lifted 180 kg in the snatch and a world record 224 in the clean and jerk to become champion in his Olympic debut with a score of 404 — also a world record. Yeison López of Colombia got silver and Antonino Pizzolato of Italy took home the bronze.

The event, merging the 81 and 96 kgs as part of a reduction of weight classes from Tokyo in 2021, was not for the faint of heart, with multiple weightlifters going down in pain during the competition.

Team title

China paddlers successfully defended their men's team title after beating Sweden in three nail-biting matches as Ma Long cemented his status as one of his country's most decorated athletes.

Ma became the most decorated Olympian in China's history with six gold medals.

Earlier, French teenager Felix Lebrun, who made history by winning the first bronze in table tennis singles for France since 2000, added another bronze to the host nation's delight.