BY Telegraph.co.uk

The new pairing of Thomas Daley and Blake Aldridge claimed the first of two medals for Great Britain at the FINA Diving Grand Prix in Madrid.

Daley (Plymouth) and Aldridge (Southampton) were competing against some of the world's best divers in the men's platform synchro.

China took the gold medal but the British pair edged out Germany for the silver.

"That was a pretty good score for us," said Aldridge. ''I believe we pushed the Chinese on today, we knew we couldn't catch them but they knew we were close to them."

The second medal of the day came in the men's three metre springboard event with Nicholas Robinson-Baker and Ben Swain claiming bronze in a tightly-fought final.

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