Great Britain diver Tom Daley admitted he was delighted to win a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rio after a tense finish with partner Dan Goodfellow.

The duo have only being diving together for nine months and, in a bid to win a medal in Brazil, Daley moved Goodfellow into his London home before flying to Rio.

Their new relationship clearly blossomed as they added to Team GB’s medal tally in the men’s 10-metre synchro event on Monday evening.

China’s Lin Yue and Chen Aisen went into the event as the favourites and they won gold comfortably from United States duo David Boudia and Steele Johnson.

Great Britain and Germany were then left to fight it out for third place and Daley and Goodfellow eventually secured bronze. Speaking after the medal ceremony,

Daley said: “It was an agonising wait that felt like an eternity. We were there and knew we had done a good dive but we didn’t know if we had done enough.

“It was just one of those moments where I knew how I would feel if it came up on the scoreboard that we finished fourth, and I knew how I would feel if we finished third

“We were just waiting and waiting with replay after replay, then all of a sudden the scores came up, I pounced on Dan and I don’t think he was quite ready for it, and then before we knew it we were back in for a top bombing seventh dive.”