A current world champion and a Commonwealth Games gold medallist have been among the victors on the first day of finals in cold and windy conditions at the FINA Diving Grand Prix on the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Australia, China, Malaysia and Great Britain shared the gold medals, with the experienced Melissa Wu teaming up with Adelaide’s Taneka Kovchenko to beat a small field in the women’s platform synchro.

Malaysia’s Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Pandelela Rinong, showed her class with a win in the women’s platform final.

Rinong, who is also a two-time Olympic medallist and one of the early favourites for next year’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, finished on 319.40 points to see of Canada’s Celina Toth, also likely to compete on the Gold Coast next year, on 310.20.

Australian teenager AnnaRose Keating was third on 285.65, with teammate and Rio Olympian Brittany O’Brien in fourth place.

2017 world champion Siyi Xie saw off teammate and Olympic gold medallist Yuan Cao to win the men’s springboard final, with German Patrick Hausding, a bronze medallist behind Cao in Rio, finishing third in a world-class final.

Xie finished with 445.15, Cao posted 427.60 and Hausding posted 403.85 to just edge out Jamaica’s Yona Knight-Wisdom, the best performer from the Commonwealth countries.

Wu and Kovchenko finished on 300.24 to win gold in the women’s platform synchro.

While there were only three teams in the event, the Australians had to overcome Malaysia’s Pandelela Rinong and Leong Mun Yee, likely medal challengers at next year’s Commonwealth Games.

The Malaysians finished on 287.10, with the Australian combination of O’Brien and Keating finishing third.

Just two teams competed in the mixed platform synchro, with Great Britain’s Gemma McArthur and Lucas Thomson on 269.46 triumphing over Malaysia’s Jellson Jabillin and Cheong Jun Hoong on 262.71.

The 2017 Grand Prix wraps up on Sunday, with finals in the men’s individual and platform synchro, the women’s individual and synchro springboard, and mixed springboard events.