Tom Daley, the local favorite who led going into the final dive, finished third with 556.95.
"I led from the beginning to the final dive," Sautin said afterward, "so it is very disappointing to lose.
For Daley and Goodfellow, the pursuit of the leaders had come down to the very last knockings, the final dive of 36 in a gruellingly high-end competition.
) As the final dive of the expedition, this would also be our group's last time seeing Alvin in its current configuration before he goes in for an upgrade in several months.
But the moment was fleeting, and by the time Chen had spun her 66-pound frame through the air and slipped into the pool on the final dive of the night, the crowd was on its feet again.
"It would be great to find a piece of the elevator," said one person involved in the search, referring to a part on the tail that might have come loose and caused the final dive.
The Americans Chris Colwill and Jevon Tarantino nearly won the bronze medal, but Tarantino botched his entry in the final dive, a reverse three-and-a-half somersault, and they slipped to fourth.
The Germans with whom the pair were tussling for third place, Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein, had pipped them to gold in May's European championships, in the London Aquatics Centre, where Goodfellow over-rotated on the final dive.
Wilkinson, a gold medalist in the individual platform, and her partner were still in a tight, three-way battle for the bronze with Australia and Austria heading to the final dive.
On the final dive, Guo faltered on a inward two-and-a-half somersault, and Fu locked up the gold with a clean entry on a reverse one-and-a-half somersault with two-and-a-half twists.
