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Murray Wenzel

SHOCKING: Cool heads prevail for games diving bronze - What They Never Told You

Sam Fricker and Shixin Li have won bronze in synchronised diving at the Commonwealth Games. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Diver Sam Fricker has thanked his partner and "coolest man ever" Shixin Li after they combined for a surprise bronze in the three-metre synchronised springboard final.

Competing together internationally for the first time, 20-year-old Fricker and former world champion Li, 34, produced a clutch final effort to hang on to third at Birmingham's Sandwell Aquatics Centre on Friday.

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