Chiara Pellacani captured back-to-back golds in a single session at the European Aquatics Championships in Paris.
the Italian partnered Matteo Santoro in the mixed 3m synchro before retaining her women’s 1m springboard title.
The Olympic Aquatics Centre rose to recognise the woman who’d dominated throughout with a peerless display of diving.
In the mixed 3m synchro she and Santoro, reigning world champions, finished almost 20 points clear of the Neutral Athletes pairing of Ilia Molchanov and Elizaveta Kuzina, to win their third European title together.
In third place were Germany’s defending champions Lena Hentschel and Luis Avila Sanchez, who had beaten them to the title a year earlier by just 0.03.
Pellacani then returned for her individual 1m springboard event where she dominated once more to clinch gold with 298.90pts, 40.00pts ahead of Switzerland’s Michelle Heimberg who scored 258.80.
Bronze went to Great Britain’s Desharne Bent-Ashmeil, the 2024 3m springboard champion, who was 12th and last qualifier in the morning but who totalled 254.35 to finish ahead of NAB athlete Uliana Kliueva on 251.20.
It was Pellacani’s greatest margin of victory and she said through European Aquatics: “This is the first time for me winning two golds. It means a lot to me. I was very confident, but it’s something you dream about and when it happens it is something very magical – and I loved it.”