2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil Aug 05-21,2016 - China's Wu Minxia Wins Record Fifth Diving Gold Sunday Aug 07,2016

China's Wu Minxia splashed into the Olympic record books on Sunday Aug 07,2016, passing legends like American Greg Louganis and her "big sister", compatriot Guo Jingjing, to become the first person with 5 diving gold medals.

Wu reached the landmark through a no-doubt victory in the women's synchronised 3m springboard along with dive partner Shi Tingmao at the Rio Games.

Wu and Shi leapt to the top of the leaderboard from round one and never let up, locking it away in the last two rounds with exquisitely synchronised dives that had the judges fawning.

Their final tally of 345.60 points was 31.77 more than Italian silver medallists Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape. Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith of Australia took bronze.

The win establishes Wu as one of the great all-time Olympians and broke other barriers as well.
Wu passed Guo to become the first man or woman with seven diving medals in total, and she is now the only person to win the 3m event in four successive Games.

At the age of 30, she also became the oldest women's diving gold medallist.

Note

Wu won the event in 2004 and 2008 with Guo, and in 2012 with He Zi.

Wu's other gold came in the 2012 3m individual springboard