Despatie totaled 518.65 points. He got behind early, falling into seventh place before rallying.

"These guys don't let us do any mistakes," Despatie said. "It was especially hard because I had to dive after a living legend."

He was referring to Sautin, who won the 2001 world title.

Sautin, the old man of the competition at 33, received all 10s on a reverse 2? somersault from the pike position. He threw his arms in the air while most of the crowd gave him a standing ovation.

"There was such a good crowd, I didn't hear the scores," said Sautin, who found out from teammate Aleksandr Dobroskok. "I didn't pay a lot of attention because I still had one dive to go."

But Qin was already too far ahead and even perfection didn't budge Sautin higher than third, where he had been lodged since the fourth round.

Five different divers received 10s during the six-dive final.

He Chong, the 1-meter silver medalist here, saved the hardest dive of the final for last - a forward 2? somersault with three twists. His marks ranged from 7.5 to 9.0, but it wasn't enough to make up for badly missing his fourth dive. He ended up sixth.

American Troy Dumais was seventh, failing to match the silver medal he won two years ago. He was fourth going into the last round.

"I didn't do my last dive like I needed to," he said. "That's usually one of my best dives and I didn't perform it as well as I can. If I'd gotten 9s on that, I'd be 30 points higher and that would put me in third place."

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