China have won the 3-metre women's synchronised diving at the World Aquatic Championships for the eighth successive time, with Australia collecting another bronze in Kazan, Russia.
Triple Olympic champions Wu Minxia and Shi Tingmao have scored 351.30 points to claim gold with Canada's Jennifer Abel and Pamela Ware taking silver with 319.47 and Australia's Samantha Mills and Esther Qin third with 304.20.
Earlier on Saturday, Melissa Wu and Domonic Bedggood also won bronze for Australia in the non-Olympic mixed platform synchro category.
The pair had only dived together for the first time a few days before the event.
Mills and Qin's performance does however see them qualify for the 3-metre synchro in Rio in 2016.
They began strongly in their final, sitting in the silver medal position after the first three dives.
But a low score on their penultimate dive slipped the Australians back to fourth, before a big final effort lifted them back into the bronze.
After a tentative start, Wu and Bedggood finished strongly to grab third behind China and Canada in the first ever World Championship synchro event.
After two dives the Australians were back in equal eighth but moved up with just one dive to go.
"We had our first session two days ago, so this was our second session," Bedggood said.
"When we saw our coaches after two dives, they told us this is where the competition begins. We knew our optionals were our strongest dives, so we just had to get those right.
"We were just going out there to have fun and get the nerves out of the way, given it was our first competition dive and my first World Championships."
Their final score was less than two points behind Canada, who leapfrogged from fourth.
"The Canadians did the whole World Series together, they train in the same city, so we're pretty happy to finish with bronze," Bedggood said.
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