SINGAPORE — Losing a gold to Britain’s Lois Toulson in the women’s 10m platform yesterday (Oct 18) may have been a blip in China’s plan for dominination at the FINA Diving Grand Prix, but the nine-strong team got right back to business at the OCBC Aquatic Centre today.

Despite fielding their national ‘B’ team for the Singapore leg of the Grand Prix, the Chinese swept all four gold medals (women’s 3m springboard, men’s 10m platform, men’s 3m synchronised springboard, mixed 10m synchronised platform) on offer today to take their three-day tally to nine.

China’s three-time world junior champion Wu Chun Ting, 18, and Wang An Qi, 23, were the joint top performers of the meet, coming away with three gold medals each.

Wu — who had already won gold in the 3m mixed and synchronised events — proved a crowd-pleaser today, delivering some spectacular somersaults and twists enroute to clinching gold in her pet event, the women’s 3m springboard.

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WATCH: China's three-time world junior champion, Wu Chun Ting, perfectly executes her final dive in the women's 3m springboard final to clinch gold. 

While Wu claimed the title with 339.75 points, teammate Xu Zhi Huan was not as lucky, as a botched third dive saw her ranking plunging from first to last. The 22-year-old could not make up the shortfall, finishing in last place among the six-strong field.

Ukraine’s Anastasiia Nedobiga won the silver in 316.85, while Australia’s Naomi Gowlett (296.35) claimed the bronze.

Wu is aiming to join her seniors, four-time Olympic champion Wu Minxia and London 2012 gold medallist (women’s 3m synchro springboard) He Zi, in the national team in future. “I can’t remember how many gold medals I have won from this year’s Diving Grand Prix series, but it is all about hard work to reach my dream of qualifying for the Olympics one day – maybe in 2020,” she said. “But for now, I have my sights on my short-term goal which is to make the national team first.”

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WATCH: China's Wang An Qi proved too strong for his competitors again in the men's 10m platform final, as he clinched his third gold medal in the three-day diving meet in Singapore. 

Ukraine’s Nedobiga, who has already earned her spot at next year’s Olympic Games, has set her sights higher, as the 21-year-old hopes to give the mighty Chinese a run for their money in Rio de Janeiro. “I will try my best, and I hope that I can medal then,” she said. “Diving in Ukraine is right now much more popular than before, and we also got a new pool built recently, and hopefully we will take some (medals) at international competitions more regularly.”

With China’s divers finishing at the top of the medal table here, coach Wang Xiao Song said he was satisfied with his team’s overall performance. However, he was far from pleased with his charges’ consistency, as he said: “The results we achieved in Singapore are not bad. However, there are still a lot of problems that need to be ironed out before we head to the Malaysia leg (Oct 23-25).

“We didn’t get the gold in the women’s 10m platform, and Xu – who is one of the two divers in the China national diving team we brought here – also slipped up, so definitely we are a little disappointed.”

“The standard of the competition here in Singapore is not high, and I will remind my divers about that. They still have some ways to go to be on the level as the senior national team divers.”