The sport's undisputed powerhouse nation has now won all seven events contested so far at the South Korean city's Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center.

Wang Han and Shi Tingmao won the women's three metres synchronised springboard competition after a flawless performance saw them end on 342.00 points.

Shi, a double Olympic gold medallist from Rio 2016, has now won seven world titles while Wang has claimed three.

After the event the winning duo claimed they had prevailed despite struggling with injury.

"We not only had injuries but also fatigue and stress," Wang said to Xinhua.

"We had to use our own time to recover.

"Every day, we trained very late. 

"And then we went to the medical centre.

"A lot of time was taken away. 

"I had to sleep as much as possible to cure my injury."

Shi added: "It was important for me to get a gold medal.

"But what's more important is to pass the spirit of the Chinese diving team down to the next generation. 

"You cannot restrict yourselves to just winning gold medals. 

"You should see more than this. 

"Enjoy the diving and the Games."

Shi has now won the event for the last four editions of the World Championships, with Chang Yani in 2017 and Wu Minxia in 2015 and 2013.

Canada's Jennifer Abel and Mélissa Citrini-Beaulieu won silver on 311.10 as Mexico's Paola Espinosa and Melany Hernández took bronze on 294.90.

It meant a ninth world medal for Abel to make her Canada's most decorated athlete at the event. 

In the men's synchronised 10m platform China's Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen claimed a huge victory over the rest of the field.

Both men boast two Olympic gold medals each and now five world titles between them after their tally of 486.93.

Cao has won two golds in Gwangju after his synchronised three metre springboard success with Xie Siyi while Chen has claimed this title three times in a row after winning it with Yang Hao in 2017 and Lin Yue in 2015.

Russia's Aleksandr Bondar and Viktor Minibaev won silver on 444.60 as Britain's Tom Daley and Matty Lee ended on 425.91 for bronze.

Two titles were awarded in artistic swimming today with Ukraine and Russia collecting gold medals.

Ukraine won the highlight routine event with their 10-strong team registering a score of 94.5000 at the Yeomju Gymnasium.

Italy were second on 91.7333 with Spain third on 91.1333.

Russia, who won the first two artistic swimming gold medals at the Championships, were not involved but did triumph in the mixed duet technical routine which was won by Mayya Gurbanberdieva and Aleksandr Maltsev.

They registered a winning score of 92.0749 as Maltsev, a silver medallist on the only two other occasions this event has been held at the World Championships, finally upgraded to gold.

Italy's defending champions Manila Flamini and Giorgio Minisini finished second on 90.8511 as Japan's Atsushi Abe
and Yumi Adachi won bronze with 88.5113.

Other action today included the start of the men's water polo competition.

Defending world champions Croatia opened with a 14-4 win over Australia in Group B at Nambu University.

United States beat Kazakhstan 16-7 elsewhere in the group.

In Group A Serbia, the reigning Olympic, European and World League champions, were held to a 10-10 draw against neighbours Montenegro.

Greece hammered hosts South Korea 26-3 in the group's other match.

Group C saw two massive wins with Hungary brushing aside New Zealand 24-4 and Spain beating South Africa 23-3.

Italy beat Brazil 14-5 in Group D with Japan and Germany contesting a 9-9 draw.

The top side in each group will qualify for the quarter-finals, with those placed second and third playing-off for the right to join them.

Tomorrow sees gold medals awarded in the diving team event and the team technical routine in the artistic swimming.

The men's 10 kilometre champion in open water swimming will also be crowned.

The Championships, the flagship event of the International Swimming Federation, will run until July 28.