Tom Daley posts defiant LGBT+ message after winning synchro 10m diving gold with Dan Goodfellow

After pulling out of the individual event through injury, Daley picked up his fourth Commonwealth Games gold after posting a combined total of 405.81 with Goodfellow.

Dixon and Williams posted 399.99 to take the silver, with Australian duo Domonic Bedgood and Declan Stacey comfortably winning bronze (397.92) ahead of Malaysia’s Jellson Jabillin and Hanis Nazirul Jaya Surya.

Gold for Daley and Goodfellow saw them add to their Olympic bronze and European silver, and achieved it despite scoring a final-round 61.05 – considerably lower than their fifth-round score of 90.72.

"I'm really happy with five of our dives, I dropped our last dive which is usually my best dive - it's been going great in training,” Goodfellow told the BBC.

"So it was a bit close for my liking in the end - I didn't know we had it."

Daley added: "It's the Commonwealth Games and I didn't know if I was going to be able to compete so this medal means a whole lot to me.

"I know I've won medals in the past but it's been a smoother journey to get to those competitions whereas this has been a really rough and rocky ride for me to get to this competition to be able to compete.

"It was a close call as to whether I would be pulled from the synchro as well. As a competitor I want to do everything possible to compete. I had massage, compression, ice baths... I did everything I could to get myself in best possible shape.

"I tried everything to be in shape to be able to perform and I was happy with my dives today."

Following the medal ceremony, Daley posted a defiant message on Twitter, where he said he hoped fellow LGBT+ members from other commonwealth nations would be free to compete.

“37 of the competing nations criminalise being LGBT+. I feel so lucky to be able to be openly who I am without worry,” Daley said on Twitter.

“I hope one day every athlete from every nation in the commonwealth will be free to compete openly as who they are too!”