Australian high-diving gold medallist Rhiannon Iffland has promised to keep pushing for her sport to be included on the 2024 Olympic program, after snatching gold in a dramatic final round at the FINA World Championships in Budapest on the weekend.

FINA had hoped to have the spectacular 20m high diving discipline on the schedule for Tokyo 2020, but were left disappointed when the final program came out.

“Every athlete’s dream is to compete in the Olympics," Iffland said after winning gold.

"Unfortunately it's not in now. We will keep pushing for it and fingers crossed the next Olympics will feature the sport."

Iffland, who hails from the NSW Central Coast, has wasted no time becoming one of the world’s foremost cliff and high-divers. She left it to her final dive in last week’s two-day competition to secure the gold.

In doing so 25-year-old Iffland became the youngest high-diving gold medallist and the first non-American to finish on top of the podium.

Iffland found herself under pressure with one dive to go when Mexico’s Adriana Jimenez nailed her final dive to leapfrog up the leaderboard and into the top position.

But Iffland, the reigning World Cliff Diving champion after winning five of the seven meets last year, was up to the challenge.

She notched up a 96.90 triple back to put her out of reach to the rest of the field with 320.70 points.

Jimenez was second with 308.90, while Yana Nestsiarava of Belarus was third on 303.95.

“It’s very intimidating standing up there, 20 meters up, just looking at your feet,” Iffland said.

“It’s not easy and the fear’s always there. For myself, I’m always scared. There’s never a moment where I walk up to that platform and I’m feeling 100 percent confident.

“But it’s been an amazing couple of days, getting up to that amazing platform, amazing facility that they put together for us.”