Sarah Barrow (top) and Tonia Couch: diving silver

English divers Sarah Barrow and Tonia Couch had to settle for Commonwealth Games silver in the women's synchronised 10-metre platform.

The Plymouth pair led after four of their five dives but were overtaken on the final dive by Canada's Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion, who won gold with a score of 310.65.

Barrow and Couch finished with a score of 306.96 and Malaysia's Pamg Pandelela Rinong and Sabri Nur Dhabitah (300.12) claimed bronze.

There was a delayed start to the second event on day one of the diving competition at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh due to a technical issue related to the judges' electronic scoring systems.

Barrow and Couch showed no ill-effects, their synchronisation well rewarded by the judges with straight nines in the first two dives as they moved into the lead with a cumulative total of 105.00.

Barrow and Couch performed their most difficult dive - an inward 3 1/2 somersault for their third dives - third and scored 66.24, despite not executing it as well as the first two dives.

They retained the lead going into the fourth round, when the English pair scored a high of 66.60 to be in pole position for gold in the final round.

Barrow and Couch performed the back 2 1/2 somersault with 1 1/2 twists but scored only 69.12 as the Canadian pair took gold.

Preliminaries

Twelve out of 14 divers progressed from the men's 1m springboard preliminaries, the final of which takes place on Wednesday evening.

Three Englishman advanced, with Jack Laugher, a former world junior champion, going through in first place with 435.30.

Chris Meares, who recovered from life-saving surgery to remove a ruptured spleen suffered while diving in 2009, finished with 383.40 in third place to advance, with Australia's Matthew Mitcham (383.65) second.

Freddie Woodward saved his best dive till last to total 365.45 in fourth place, while Yona Knight-Wisdom, who is representing Jamaica but was born in Leeds, scored 333.10 to progress in eighth.

James Heatly, grandson of five-time Games diving medallist Sir Peter Heatly, was 10th entering the final round, but left his most difficult dive until last, an inward 2 1/2 somersault.

The 17-year-old from Edinburgh scored 54.25 to total 317.65 and advanced in 10th place.