
The duo came out top with 382.11 points in the finals at the National Aquatic Centre, Bukit Jalil.
Vladimir Rudenko and Lachlan Cronin from Australia took silver with 360.12 points while the Egyptian pair of Mohamed Farouk and Mohamed Noaman earned bronze with 327.63 points.
“I’m happy with our performance today, although not all of our dives were good. We still managed to achieve gold for Malaysia,” Tze Liang told Bernama when met after the finals.
Yesterday, the 29-year-old emerged as the men’s 3m springboard champion with his season best of 441.35 points, while Yi Wei, 27, amassed 406.90 points for the silver. Cronin took bronze with 402.20 points.
Yi Wei was also satisfied with his performance today after he won the silver medal in the men’s 3m springboard final.
Jellson Jabilin-Enrique Harold, another Malaysian diving pair, excelled in the men’s synchronised 10m platform as they clinched the gold medal by defeating Indonesian divers Adityo Restu Putra and Andriyan Andriyan with 356.28 points in a two-horse final.
Meanwhile, Ong Ker Ying had to settle for silver in the 3m women’s springboard with 281.75 points behind Alysha Koloi of Australia who took gold with 297.60 points. Gladies Lariesa Garina from Indonesia won bronze with 271.80 points.
In the 10m mixed platform synchronised, national pair Hanis Nazirul-Elisha Rania finished second with 260.04 points behind Korean divers Minhyuk Kang-Nahyun Kim who achieved 267.54 points to claim their gold medal.