Yang Hao and Lian Junjie played their parts with aplomb in China’s bid to take all eight diving gold medals on offer by winning the men’s synchronised 10 metre platform event on Monday.

The pair led the event from the first round and finished on 490.35 points — becoming the second Chinese diving pair to top the podium so far at the Paris Olympics.

Tom Daley and Noah Williams of Britain took silver with 463.44 points, followed by Canada’s Ryan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray who won bronze.

Yang, 26, and 23-year-old Lian have dominated the world championships in the last three years but it was their first time to stand on top of the Olympic podium.

The Chinese pair, the 7th to start, kicked off their routines with a forward dive in pike position and immediately established their lead.

Their skill in their last dive and the most difficult routine in their programme — the forward four-and-a-half somersault with a near-perfect entry — landed the event’s highest score on Monday, 103.23 points.

Daley fell short of upsetting China’s dream team but he and partner Williams received roaring cheers from the fans, as they witnessed what might have been the 30-year-old five-time Olympian’s last Games performance. Daley has not said what he plans to do after Paris.

Daley and Williams started training as a pair only 9 months ago.

Daley had stepped away from the sport after the Toyko Olympics in his long Olympic journey that started as a 14-year-old in Beijing 2008.

“For me the achievement was getting back to competition readiness within a year, something I didn’t expect to be able to do,” he said.