Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda, still only 19, earned the first individual world medal of his developing career as he took silver in a dramatic 10m platform final won with a final flourish by Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau.

Sereda thus added to the 10m mixed synchro and 10m synchro silvers he had earned at the respective 2022 and 2023 World Championships.

Two months earlier at the European Aquatics Diving Championships in Antalya Sereda had earned three golds to help Ukraine top the medals table with a total of seven medals.

The victories came in the mixed team event, the 10m synchro – in partnership with 15-year-old Mark Hrytsenko – and, for a third time, the 10m platform event which he had previously won as a 14-year-old at the home Championships in Kyiv 2019 and at the 2022 Championships in Rome.

Sereda’s season had begun in promising fashion when he won two medals at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup – Super Final.

His first was earned in the 10m platform syncho, where he and Mark Hrytsenko totalled 395.37 in an event won by Zifeng Zhu and Zilong Cheng with 460.92.

Immediately afterwards Sereda joined Sofia Lyskun, 18-year-old Kirill Boliukh and Kseniia Bailo to finish second in the mixed 3m and 10m team event with 423.70 as gold went to China on 507.20.

Two years after winning the European 3m springboard title in Rzeszow, Germany’s 23-year-old Moritz Wesemann earned a second gold in superb style as he dominated the 1m springboard competition at the European Aquatics Diving Championships in Antalya.

During the 3m springboard final he went for broke in pursuit of a double but dropped off the lead after mistiming a late effort, eventually taking bronze.

He added a second gold in the 3m synchro with Timo Barthel.

Earlier in the season Wesemann had claimed bronze medals in the 3m synchro and 3m springboard at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup – Super Final in Beijing’s Water Cube.

He finished his season by taking sixth place in the 1m and 3m springboard events at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.

Italy’s 18-year-old Matteo Santoro ended the season standing atop the podium at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore after he and his 22-year-old partner Chiari Pellacani secured an emotional victory in the mixed 3m synchro.

The Italian pair had been frustrated in their attempt to win a third European mixed 3m synchro title when Germany’s Luis Avila and Lena Hentschel overtook them with their last dive, taking gold by 0.03.

Santora also won European bronze in the mixed team event.

Great Britain’s Jordan Houlden finished as top European in the 1m and 3m springboard events at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, missing the podium by one place in both finals.

The 27-year-old from Sheffield – who finished fifth in the Paris 2024 3m springboard event – had the bittersweet achievement of producing one of the highest non-medal-winning totals recorded in the 3m event.

He scored 492.10 in finishing behind Mexico’s Olvera Ibarra and  China’s Yuan Cao and Zongyuan Wang.

Houlden had qualified second for the 1m springboard final, where he missed out on a medal by just 0.35 as he finished on 405.15 behind China’s bronze medallist Yan Siyu.

Houlden’s season began in promising style in April when he was the surprise winner of the 3m springboard title at the second leg of the World Aquatics Diving World Cup in Windsor, Canada.

A total of 470.85 earned him his first global gold.

Poland’s 33-year-old Andrzej Rzeszutek used all his experience to secure Poland’s first medal of the European Aquatics Diving Championships in the last event – and to make it golden.

The man who claimed Poland’s first European diving title in 2024, when he won the 1m springboard event in Belgrade, remained consistent under pressure, taking advantage of a late lapse by Germany’s 2025 1m champion Wesemann to take over and maintain the lead in the 3m springboard.

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics