Australia's Maddison Keeney has produced a brilliant final dive to beat Nadezhda Bazhina of Russia to the women's 1m springboard title and make up for past disappointment at the world championships.

Bazhina had taken over the lead from Keeney going into the final round but the Australian finished with a flourish for a total of 314.95 points, beating the Russian by 10.25, to claim her first gold medal.

Nerves got the better of Keeney at the world titles in Kazan, Russia, in 2015, when she flunked her final dive and blew any chance of a podium place, but there was no such embarrassment this time.

"I wanted to redeem myself," she said.

"I didn't need to doubt myself.

"I didn't need to think about what happened in the past because I knew that all the training, all the hard work I'd done, would pay off."

European champion Elena Bertocchi of Italy won bronze with 296.40, ahead of China's Chen Yiwen and Russia's Maria Polyakova.

Keeney rose to prominence on the international stage during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Performing alongside Annabelle Smith in the synchronised springboard diving, Keeney won bronze at last year's Olympic Games.

"My coach always told me that I would be able to change women's diving and be able to push everyone else so that women's 1meter is not so boring anymore for everyone to watch," Keeney said.

It was Australia's first gold in the event since 2003.