Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow secure Rio Olympics place
Sunday 21 February 2016 23:54, UK
Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow booked their place at the 2016 Olympics after combining for a bronze medal at the Diving World Cup in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
The pair finished in third place in the men's 10m synchro event behind Chinese pair Aisen Chen and Yue Lin and German duo Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein.
The result confirmed Great Britain would take one of four remaining Olympic quota places in the event, with Daley and Goodfellow sure to get the nod.
It was a promising international debut for Daley and Goodfellow, who had first competed together in the National Cup in Southend last month.
Daley has been looking for a new permanent synchro partner since splitting with Peter Waterfield, with whom he finished fourth at the 2012 Games in London.
Earlier, Freddy Woodward qualified a second Olympic quota spot for Great Britain when he booked his place in the semi-finals of the men's 3m springboard event.
And Oliver Dingley will become the first Irish diver to compete at an Olympics since 1948 after he also finished within the qualification zone in the same event.
