Across two sold out sessions at Birmingham’s Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Australian divers picked up a medal in each of the three events on offer from the second day of competition at the Commonwealth Games.

In what was an action-packed Men’s 3-Metre Synchro final, the Australian pairing of Sam Fricker and Shixin Li kept their cool to land themselves in the bronze medal position on the podium.

“It's incredible,” Fricker said. 

“Just to get out there compete and to achieve a dream, that takes a weight off my shoulders. 

It was the first Commonwealth Games event for Fricker, his partner Li secured a silver in Thursday’s Men’s 1-Metre event.

“It just fills me with excitement that I was able to come out here and, and be able to perform when I needed to, and that feels great,” Fricker said.

Despite sitting in fifth after four rounds of competition, the Aussie team found and opportunity to move up the rankings after fifth round mistakes from the Scottish and Malaysian teams.

It was through Li’s experience and role as a mentor to Fricker that the duo could maintain their momentum and composure.

“He helps me a lot,” Fricker said. “You can see, he pulled me aside before that last dive, because there was a mishap in the competition. He was like, ‘stay calm, we've done this in training, hold together and just execute.’”

It was the first international as a pairing for Fricker and Li who traditional compete in individual events.

“It feels incredible. I came here with a goal of just wanting to get a medal. I’ve and been training with Shixin for a while now, but it's our first international comp ever, so to come away with the bronze medal, at the Commonwealth Games, it’s amazing,” Fricker said.

Amongst a field of outstanding competitors, Australian Brittany O’Brien rose above the pressure to win her first Commonwealth Games medal, a silver in the Women’s 1-Metre Springboard.

It was the first springboard event at the Commonwealth Games for O’Brien who had traditionally competed as a platform specialist. However, after a period of difficulty on the tower last year, O’Brien found a second life in diving on the lower boards.

“I was just having a few problems on platform, so I was just going to quit entirely, but my coach convinced me to come to springboard and here I am,” O’Brien said.

“The first few competitions on springboard were kind of rough but now I’m now in the rhythm of it so feeling good.”

O’Brien’s fourth round dive, a reverse two-and-a-half tuck, had one of the highest degrees of difficulty in the competition. It was also the highest scoring of her list.

“It’s one of my newest dives and I’ve never really hit it well in competition before, so it felt really good to actually put it down today,” O’Brien said.

“You can sort of tell once you’ve taken off the board how its going to end up. It’s my favourite dive to put down in training.”

Teammates Georgia Sheehan and Esther Qin put forward a pair of strong lists to finish just outside the medals in fifth and sixth respectively. 

In the final event of the evening, Domonic Bedggood and Cassiel Roussseau partnered to take home a bronze medal in the Men’s 10-Metre Synchro.

The medal is the first for Rousseau in his debut Games, for Bedggood it is his fifth in Commonwealth competition.

Bedggood has now medalled in the event at each of the previous three Commonwealth Games with three different synchro partners.

The event was won by recent FINA World Championships Silver Medallists Matty Lee and Noah Williams of England. The Canadian pairing of Ryan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray placed second.

The Australian Diving Team return to competition on Saturday with a 7:05PM AEST start time.