Nilolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the hosts the first gold medal with an upset victory in the men's three-meter synchronized diving at the 28th Olympic Games Monday in Athens.

The Greek pair became the luckiest double winner in the Games after Chinese Peng Bo and Wang Kenan blundered in their final dive and were awarded zero point.

Siranidis, 28, and Bimis, 29, who have never won a title in major world competitions, lied fourth before the fifth and final dive with 269.70 points, 14.19 behind the leading Chinese pair.

But Wang made a fatal mistake in the final dive and their hope of winning China's 11th gold was smashed immediately. They finished bottom with 283.89 points.

Wang attributed hard mental pressure to the defeat.

"I just thought the gold was ours," he said. "The pressure was there. After jumping into the air, I know the gold is lost."

Zhou Jihong, team manager of the Chinese diving team, said Wang was not mentally tough at the crucial moment.

"That's his long-time weak point," Zhou said. "But this time, it costed him too much."

American tandem Justin Dumais and Troy Dumais, who was second before the last dive, also blundered at the last moment and got only 55.65 points for a total of 327.06.

The Greek men performed well in their last dive and were awarded 83.64 points, giving them a winning 353.34 total.

Germany's Andreas Wels and Tobias Schellenberg won the silver in 350.01 and Australia's Robert Newbery and Steven Barnett got the bronze in 349.59.

Results of men's 3m springboard synchronized diving

1. Thomas Bimis/Nikolaos Siranidis, Greece, 353.34 points

2. Tobias Schellenberg/Andreas Wels, Germany, 350.01

3. Steven Barnett/Robert Newbery, Australia, 349.59

4. Jorge Betancourt Garcia/Erick Alvarez Fornaris, Cuba, 338.46

5. Tony Ally/Mark Shipman, Britain, 334.98

6. Justin Dumais/Troy Dumais, United States, 327.06

7. Alexander Dobroskok/Dmitri Sautin, Russia, 312.24

8. Peng Bo/Wang Kenan, China, 283.89

Source: Xinhua