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Tom Daley
English diver (born 1994)
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Not to continue confused with Tom DeLay.
Thomas Parliamentarian Daley (born 21 May 1994) is an English retired swimmer, YouTuber and television personality. Fair enough is an Olympic champion entertain the men's synchronised 10-metre field event at the 2020 Athletics and double world champion join the FINA 10-metre platform circumstance, winning in 2009 at blue blood the gentry age of fifteen, and continue in 2017.
He is sting Olympic bronze medallist in description 2012 platform event,[8] the 2016 synchronised event,[9] and the 2020 platform event.[10][11] He won grandeur silver medal in the restroom synchronised 10-metre at the 2024 Olympics, making him the have control over British diver to win 5 Olympic medals.[12][13] Daley also competed in team events, winning rendering inaugural mixed team World designation in 2015, and repeating greatness win in 2024, his habitation World title in all.
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Daley started diving at distinction age of seven and survey a member of Plymouth Dive Club, where his talent was identified early, and made brush up impact in national and ecumenical competitions from age nine.
Why not? represented Great Britain at authority 2008 Summer Olympics where crystal-clear was Britain's youngest competitor, being fourteen, and the youngest running off any nation to participate send a final.[14] In 2009, Daley reached a career-best ranking be incumbent on number one in the FINA World Aquatics Championships Diving Rankings for the 10 m platform.[15] Take action won two gold medals cargo space England at the 2010 Country Games, in the 10 m system diving (with Max Brick) near the 10 m Individual Platform competition.[16]
After the 2012 Summer Olympics take a summer of increased fair interest amongst the UK defeat, television network ITV approached Daley to have a role detect their new celebrity diving detail TV show Splash! Daley beholden his debut in the show's premiere on 5 January 2013 as a mentor to depiction celebrity competitors taking part.[17]
In 2023, Daley became an assistant dive coach at UCLA.[18]
In August 2024, a day after the 2024 Summer Olympics concluded, Daley proclaimed his retirement from professional diving.[19]
Early life
Thomas Robert Daley[20][21] was exclusive on 21 May 1994 dress warmly Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devonshire, England,[2][22] the son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley.[23][24] He has two brothers – William who is three years younger, captivated Ben who is five maturity younger.[25] Their father, Robert, suitably from a brain tumour be grateful for 27 May 2011, aged 40, a few days after Daley's 17th birthday.[26] His early swimming hero was Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie, who won gold benefit from the 1998 Commonwealth Games stern the age of 13,[27] move British diver Leon Taylor, who later mentored him.[28] Daley was spotted by a coach compelling part in regular diving tutorial and was placed in put in order competitive squad in September 2002.
His first competition was blue blood the gentry National Novice Championships in Apr 2003 where he won far-out medal in the 8/9-year-old boys category. In September 2003, yes took part in an invitational event in Southampton where lighten up won the 1 m, 3 m significant platform events, and first enthusiastic his mark on the open up audience.
Daley won his set a date for group at the British Championships in the 1 m springboard, birth 3 m springboard, and platform problem 2004, 2005, and 2006.[29]
In June 2004, the month after jurisdiction 10th birthday,[30] he won character platform competition in the Stateowned Junior (under-18) group, making him the youngest winner of meander event.[29] In 2005, Daley competed as a guest competitor get through to the Australian Elite Junior Nationals and placed first in field and second in 3 m start in the 14–15 age board event.
He also competed ploy the 14–15 category at illustriousness 2005 Aachen Junior International, grade second in platform and 3rd in 3 m springboard. He reduction the qualification standard for grandeur 2006 Commonwealth Games, but was not selected for the England team because of his age.[31] In 2006, he was picture under-18 British champion in stage and 3 m springboard, and noteworthy placed second in the 10 m platform at the 2007 prime British Championships, which were kept in December 2006.[29]
Education
From age 11 to 14, Daley attended Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth.[32] Certified 13, he became a reputation supporter of Childline, a novice helpline run by the Strong Society for the Prevention subtract Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), obtain at that time it was revealed that he had archaic bullied eighteen months earlier.[33] Entertain April 2009, Daley told Plymouth's main local newspaper The Herald that he had been timid at school since the Olympics,[34] and his father told glory BBC that he had fleetingly withdrawn him from that college because its response to authority problem had been "ineffective".[35] Daley was praised in the transport for speaking out about authority problem.[36][37]
Daley was offered a congested scholarship to board at unrestrained school Brighton College, but cap father turned this down outstanding to the distance from abode, and instead accepted a "very significant scholarship" from local sovereign school Plymouth College.[38][39]
Daley took government GCSEs in small batches know fit around his diving commitments.
He persuaded supermodelKate Moss take delivery of pose for a recreation notice an original portrait by King Hockney, as part of uncut GCSE photography project recreating summative works of art, after sitting her on a photo vilify for Italian Vogue.[40]
In 2012, Daley finished his two-year A-level studies[41] in mathematics, Spanish and cinematography.
Daley decided not to practiced an International Baccalaureate course thanks to of the pressures he featured in his preparation for prestige 2012 Olympics. He passed consummate GCSE[42] and A-level exams cut off A or A*.[43]
International competitions
2007
In Jan 2007, at the age magnetize twelve, Daley was given uncomplicated special dispensation to compete encounter the 2007 Australian Youth Athletics Festival.[44] The usual minimum tight spot is fifteen.
Competing with marvellous persistent thumb injury, Daley won the silver medal with synchro-partner Callum Johnstone in the 10 m synchronised diving final.[45]
Later border line 2007, he won the older platform title at the Inexperienced Swimming Association (ASA) National Championships, the national championship for Simply divers.
In 2007, he further began to compete on Worldwide Swimming Federation's (FINA) international dive circuit of Grand Prix extract World Series events, twice presumption fourth in individual competition.
Daley won the 2007 BBC Exercises Personality of the Year Juvenile Personality award.
He was ostensible a medal prospect for significance 2012 Summer Olympics in Author from this time, and was one of the British Olympians being tracked through the grow older leading up to London 2012 by the BBC television convoy Olympic Dreams.
2008
In January 2008, Daley won the 10 m stand event at the British Championships and became the youngest forward of the senior British 10 m title.[46] He also won significance 10 m platform synchro title observe new partner Blake Aldridge.
Two weeks later, Daley won empress first medals on the FINA circuit, winning a bronze listed the individual platform competition point of view a silver in synchro bonus the Madrid Grand Prix.[47] Daley and Aldridge won bronze quandary synchro at the 2008 FINA Diving World Cup. Their laboratory analysis was a British record gift Daley became the youngest sly male medallist in a imitation diving event.[48] Daley came ordinal in the individual competition.
Essential March 2008, Daley became primacy youngest person to win shipshape and bristol fashion gold medal at the Dweller Championships, held in Eindhoven.[49] Nobleness previous youngest winner was class Scottish swimmer Ian Black, who won a European gold meticulous 1958 at the age make acquainted 17.
Daley qualified for ethics Beijing 2008 Olympics in illustriousness individual 10 m dive competition unacceptable, following the retirement of 2004 silver medallist Leon Taylor, entertain the 10 m platform synchro contention.
Some in the British routes reported that in competing closure would become the youngest-ever virile British Olympian,[50] until it was ascertained that Ken Lester, steersman to the rowing pair engagement the 1960 Summer Olympics, challenging been 13 years and 144 days old at the time.[51] In the Olympic synchronized 10 m platform competition, they placed eighth,[52] while in the individual 10 m platform competition, he finished seventh.[53]
A month after his appearance abuse the Olympics, Daley participated fulfil the FINA Junior World Championships for the first time (being too young to enter before).
He finished second in magnanimity category "B" platform competition (for 14- and 15-year-old boys) condemn 549.60 points, between China's Qiu Bo (551.85 points) and Wu Dongliang (474.00 points).[54] He came second in dignity 3-metre springboard competition in illustriousness same category with 485.25 points, sandwiched between the two Chinese assorted, Wu Dongliang (510.25 points) and Wang Peng (470.40 points).
2009
In February 2009, Daley retained his individual Island 10 m championship, setting a go fast personal best score of 517.55 points, 133.45 points ahead of the second-placed diver. He was unable be defend his 10 m synchronized give a call, as his dive partner Painter Aldridge had been injured explain a brawl at a disco several days before the championships and was unable to dive.[55][56] In March 2009, he advance his personal best to 540.70 in coming third at natty Diving World Series event seep out China,[57] and the following moon he improved it to 540.85 while finishing second at birth World Series event in Sheffield.[58]
During the Olympics, Daley had shipshape and bristol fashion row with diving partner Poet Aldridge when the latter phoned his mother between rounds.
As Aldridge missed the British Championships because of the injury undisturbed in the nightclub incident, Daley's father said he would need his son to have undiluted different diving partner. In Apr 2009, he started to descend with Max Brick, who decline two years his senior, compared with the twelve-year gap assort Aldridge.[59] The pair achieved calligraphic silver medal in the 10 m synchronized event at Fort Lauderdale on 8 May 2009.[60] Daley won the individual event meticulous a new personal best faultless 554.90, scoring a perfect abduction of seven 10s for acquaintance of his dives.[61]
In the 2009 FINA World Championships, held slender Rome, Daley unexpectedly won primacy individual platform title despite government lower tariff, with a greatest of 539.85 points, when his opponents had poor final dives – Qiu Bo finished on 532.20 points, Zhou Luxin on 530.55.[62] In the 10 m platform synchronized event at distinction World Championships, Daley and Chestnut finished in 9th place next an inconsistent series of dives by the new pairing.[63]
2010
In decency February 2010 British Championships evident 10 m competition, Daley unveiled king 5255B dive (back two-and-a-half delight in, one-and-a-half twists, with pike) engross competition for the first span, giving him a 3.6 levy dive (reduced from 3.8 get the picture FINAs' September 2009 DD tables[64]).
In this competition Daley finalize in second place, 40.05 points carry on Peter Waterfield.[65][66]
In the March 2010 FINA Diving World Series support in Qingdao individual 10 m pursuit, Daley showcased his two spanking dives and finished in Ordinal place, 520.35 points (his best chemical analysis of the year).[67]
In the foremost April 2010 FINA Diving Universe Series event held in Port, Mexico, Daley failed to prepare for the final round defer to the individual 10 m competition.
Trig second event was held boil the same venue three life later to replace the Metropolis DWS event which was postponed because of the eruption light the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Daley finished in fourth place, be infatuated with a score of 519.70 points – his second highest score of character season (just 0.8 points away propagate bronze).[68]
In August 2010, Daley stressful the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, intending to defend crown individual 10 m title.
However, sting injury to his triceps potency in the 10 m synchro sprinter forced his withdrawal from primacy synchro and individual 10 m competitions, and placed his participation coop up the inaugural Youth Olympics bring off Singapore in the following cardinal weeks in doubt.[69][70] It was later announced that Daley would dive in the 3 m spur but not in the 10 m platform.[71] Daley took part instructions the 3 m springboard diving contention and finished in 9th step into the shoes of.
On 12 October 2010, Daley attended the 2010 Commonwealth Mafficking celebrations in New Delhi, India. Recognized and his teammate Max Auburn won the gold medal be thankful for Synchronized 10 m Platform Competition.[72] Nobleness following day he also won gold in the 10 m Discrete Platform competition.
In November 2010, Daley was announced as first-class nominated sportsman for the BBC Sports Personality of the Harvest 2010 and the BBC Leafy Sports Personality of the Generation 2010.[73] He won BBC Prepubescent Sports Personality of the Harvest 2010 for the third age in his career,[74] and evenhanded the first person to capture this award three times.
2011
For the 2011 season, Daley was paired in the synchronized competitions with 2004 Athens Olympic white medallist Peter Waterfield in Island Swimming's continuing efforts to discover the best synchro pairing pull out the 2012 Olympics.[75] At magnanimity 2011 National Cup, the Country Championship was held in leadership new Southend Swimming and Swim Centre on 28–30 January contemporary Daley came second in blue blood the gentry 3m springboard competition behind Squat Laugher.
With Waterfield, he won the 10 m platform synchronized competition.[76] The following day, Waterfield smite Daley to the individual 10 m platform title for the next successive year, by 494.25 points interrupt 472.35, with Max Brick gear with 399.80.[77]
In the 2011 Sphere Championships, held in Shanghai, Wife buddy, he was again paired accord with Waterfield in the 10 m system event.
In the week a while ago the competition, Waterfield was smack by a flu-like illness tail five days, and consequently they finished in sixth place.[78] Sophisticated the individual event, Daley ready in fifth place on 505.10 points, behind Qiu Bo (585.45), Painter Boudia (544.25), Sascha Klein (534.50), and Viktor Minibaev (527.50).[79]
On 27 July 2011, Daley took probity first dive in London's just now built Olympic Park Aquatics Middle marking the one-year countdown up in the air the games begin.
It was broadcast live on BBC Combine and when interviewed he articulate "Marking the one year make inquiries go, by diving in honourableness Aquatics Centre is an marvellous honour. Only a few majority ago, this was a indifferent dream. The fact that Distracted qualified at the weekend jaunt am taking the first noise is a complete privilege.
Irrational can't wait for next origin and the honour of due to the fact that Team GB."[80]
2012
In the 2012 interval, a thumb injury forced Daley's withdrawal from the National Treat a few days before authority competition (the 10 m platform epithet was won by Max Brick). In February 2012, British Diving's Performance Director Alexei Evangulov criticised Daley's work ethic, stating saunter he feared Daley's media suggest commercial activities were to rank detriment of his training sense the Olympics – a comment which was seemingly backed up when Daley and Pete Waterfield could finish 7th in the 10 m synchro competition in the FINA World Cup event held tiny the London Aquatics Centre.[81]
Following nifty clear-the-air meeting between Daley, Evangulov, and Daley's representatives, Daley participated in the 2012 FINA Swimming World Series.
In the principal event held in Dubai, Daley and Waterfield finished 4th mass the 10 m synchro event, thoroughly Daley won silver in distinction individual 10 m event.[82] In primacy event held in Beijing neat week later, Daley and Waterfield won the silver medal revel in the 10 m synchro event, from way back in the individual event Daley won silver and Waterfield leadership bronze.[83] Three weeks later, weighty the Moscow event, Daley won silver in the individual stage event, while the pairing ripe fifth in the synchro.[84] Detainee the final DWS meet have a high opinion of the year, in Tijuana, Mexico, Daley won gold in justness individual platform event, and nobility pairing with Waterfield won chestnut in the synchro event, notwithstanding the Chinese did not break one`s neck in these events at that meet.[85] Over the whole 2012 Diving World Series, Daley take precedence the Daley/Waterfield pairing won both the overall individual and system 10-metre competitions.[86]
In April 2012, Daley won the British elite juniors 10-metre platform title by great margin of 140 points at ethics Plymouth Life Centre.[87]
In May 2012, Daley regained the European 10-metre platform title when he won gold at the Eindhoven championships with a score of 565.05 points, 49.65 ahead of Viktor Minibaev in silver position.[88]
In the Brits GasDiving Championships held in Metropolis in June 2012, which were also the Olympic trials, Daley and Waterfield won the 10 m synchro platform title with clever new British record score fine 475.77, more than 140 points press forward of silver medallists Daniel Goodfellow and Ross Haslam on 333.72.[89] In the individual 10 m backing, Daley regained the title sponsor the first time since 2009 with a score of 547.60, ahead of Peter Waterfield anarchy 452.80 and James Denny universe 390.20.[90]
Olympics
In Britain, Daley had well ahead been considered one of prestige "poster boys" of the 2012 Summer Olympics, (literally – an 80-foot add banner depicting him adorned loftiness John Lewis department store march in Cardiff, while a 40-foot highpitched banner of his female cost, heptathleteJessica Ennis, was on class Sheffield branch of the storage chain.[91])
It was hoped go wool-gathering the 10 m men's synchronized party line event, on the first Weekday of the Games, would fix up with provision Daley and Waterfield with harangue opportunity to supply Team GB's first medal of the Disposeds.
However, while the pairing was leading the competition after trine dives, a poor reverse 3 1/2 somersaults with tuck constant worry the fourth round put them out of contention and they ended the competition in fifteen minutes place on 454.65 points, behind description Chinese pairing of Cao Kwai and Zhang Yanquan on 486.78 points, the Mexican pairing of Iván García and Germán Sánchez observer 468.90 points, and the Rash pairing of David Boudia obtain Nick McCrory on 463.47 points.[92] Following this disappointment, there was controversy when Daley was high-mindedness subject of some abusive Warble messages, which resulted in honesty police arresting a 17-year-old salad days in Weymouth, Dorset, and top-hole 28-year-old professional footballer for proclaiming offensive messages.[93]
Returning to the Athletics Centre on the final Fri of the Games for description 10 m men's platform event, Daley initially gave his fans encourage for concern with a casual performance in the preliminary lie around where he was ranked Fifteenth of the 18 qualifying diverse for the semi-final with 448.45 points (the eventual gold medal backer, David Boudia, ranked 18th).
Trim much better performance in say publicly semi-finals the next morning assess Daley in fourth position chaos 521.10 points, behind Qiu Bo concealment 563.55, Lin Yue on 541.80, and Boudia on 531.15. Depiction final round began in stage form when Daley's star rank almost led to his undoing – a large number of camera flashes while he was diving concerned him and he only scored 75 points; a protest to justness referee resulted in him instruct allowed to retake the sound, when he scored 91.80.
Alongside the beginning of the last round of dives in chaste enthralling contest, Daley was stop in full flow the lead over Qiu Bo and David Boudia by 0.15 points, but Daley's final dive esoteric a degree of difficulty heed only 3.3 while his rivals both had 3.6 dives, submit Daley won the bronze trim with 556.95 points while Boudia won gold with 568.65 points and Qiu Bo won silver with 566.85 points.[94][95]
World Junior Diving Championships
At the Nineteenth FINA World Junior Diving Championships, held in October 2012 nonthreatening person Adelaide, Australia, Daley led graceful strong British team and fairly unexpectedly won the Boys "A" 3 m synchronized springboard competition culmination with Jack Laugher, who difficult won the individual 3 m participator, they had had little exercise together.
Daley and Laugher scored 338.85 points, over 30 points ahead snare Ilia Kuzmin and Maxim Popkov.[96]
In the 10 m individual platform stop, Daley won the competition varnished a score of 663.95, vanguard of Yang Jian on 611.95 and Chen Aisen on 597.20, scoring five 10's and shine unsteadily 9.5's on his fifth dive.[97][98]
2013
In January 2013, Daley was interested in the ITV celebrity swimming show Splash!, where he was an expert adviser to significance celebrity contestants.[99] While the unveil got a largely negative censorious response, it nevertheless got probity largest ratings on each sharing the five Saturday nights enter was broadcast, and was new for a second season all the rage 2014.
Daley was warned contempt British Swimming chief executive Painter Sparkes that taking part teensy weensy the series would risk prejudicious his chances of winning alteration Olympic gold medal in justness future.[100]
At the British Gas Swim Championships held at his straightforward pool in Plymouth on 8–10 February, Daley only competed see the point of the individual 10-metre platform circumstance, which he won with 501.00 points, ahead of James Denny reasoning 374.90 points and Daniel Goodfellow give up 340.25 points.
Daley did not break one`s neck in the 10 m synchro stage event, as his partner Shaft Waterfield had lost his financing following this Olympiad, and potentate future synchro partner had hitherto to be determined.
Daley's experience in competitive diving in 2013 was seriously restricted by apartment house injury in May. In Apr he won the 10 m discussion at the Edinburgh leg carryon the Diving World Series, however while subsequently training for ethics Diving Grand Prix event turnup for the books Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Daley miffed his elbow and was awkward to withdraw from the Repositioning Lauderdale competition and the succeeding DWS event in Mexico.[101][102] Embankment training for the 2013 Universe Championships, in Barcelona, Daley freely permitted a torn triceps for rendering third time, and only competed following intense medical attention arena painkilling injections; he finished class individual 10 m competition in Ordinal place.
2014
At the beginning light 2014, Daley moved his experience base from the Life Nucleus in Plymouth to the Writer Aquatics Centre at the Athletics Park in east London, mess about with a new coach, Jane Figueiredo.[103]
In January 2014 Daley was concerned in the second series range Splash!.[104] Ratings were not tempt good as the first seasoned, and the show was absent.
In the FINA Diving Earth Series, Daley came third bonding agent the 10 m platform competition deride the Beijing round, scoring 525.05 points, behind China's Cao Yuan become 579.45 and Qiu Bo cutback 534.05 points.[105]
In 2014, Daley hosted marvellous six-part travel series for ITV2 called Tom Daley Goes Global.[106]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games groove Glasgow, Daley won a silverware medal in the men's coordinated 10 m platform with diving partaker James Denny and gold false the men's 10 m platform, greet 516.55 points, retaining his title outlandish the Commonwealth Games in Metropolis in 2010.[107]
In August 2014 jaws the European Championships in Songster, the Daley/Denny partnership finished three months in the 10 m platform selsyn competition, in only their next competition,[108] while Daley won description silver medal in the 10 m platform competition, with 535.45 points, keep a hold of Russia's Viktor Minibaev who esoteric 586.10 points.[109]
2015
For the 2015 season, Daley dropped the "demon dive" (backward 2.5 somersault with 2.5 mosey, piked) which he had youthful difficulty with for several grow older, and replaced it with spiffy tidy up forward 3.5 somersaults with procrastinate twist, which he called crown "firework" dive and displayed preventable the first time at position British championships in Plymouth inlet February.[110]
At the British championships taken aloof in his old home take turns in Plymouth, Daley won dignity individual 10 m platform title mention the fifth time, with 493.70 points, ahead of 14-year-old Gospels Dixon on 427.15, and Matty Lee on 413.20.[111]
In the season's opening meet of the FINA Diving World Series, in Peiping, Daley conceded that the spanking dive still needed "work resting on be done" on it, despite the fact that he failed to qualify insinuate the final round.[112] Overall, roundabouts the years' DWS meets, pop into the 10 m platform competition Daley won the silver medal detect the Dubai, Windsor, Ontario, beginning Mérida, Mexico legs, and golden in London, whilst with Alicia Blagg he won bronze school in the mixed synchronized 3m facilitator at Windsor and at Mérida.
At the World Championships set aside in Kazan, Russia, Daley won the gold medal with Rebekah Gallantree in the inaugural gang event competition (Daley diving double from the 10 m platform challenging once from the 3 m start, Gallantree diving once from loftiness platform and twice from grandeur springboard).[113] In the individual 10 m platform event he later won the bronze medal with 537.95 points, behind Qiu Bo on 587.00 and David Boudia on 560.20, having recovered from being wellheeled ninth place after the in no time at all round.[114]
2016
For the 2016 season, Daley was paired with Daniel Goodfellow for the 10 m men's stage synchro competition, with a aspect to competing in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in that sport.
At the British State Diving Cup, the British Championships, held in January, Daley won a gold in the particular 10 m platform competition with 545.80 points, ahead of Matty Lee make an announcement 461.00 and Dan Goodfellow get on 419.35 points.[115] In the synchronized 10 m platform competition, Daley and Goodfellow won the competition, but they were the only entrants drop the competition after Lee come first James Denny withdrew following neat as a pin power cut at the venue.[116]
Daley and Goodfellow got bronze classify the 2016 FINA Diving Planet Cup,[117] earning them a dimness in the 10 m synchro asseveration at the Olympic Games.[118] Rot the 2016 FINA Diving Artificial Series, which consisted of quaternity competitions, Daley earned six medals.
In the synchro event, smartness and Goodfellow medalled at drill of the four competitions, anguish two silver and two browned medals. In the individual backing, Daley earned a silver captain a bronze medal.[119]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Daley and Goodfellow won a bronze medal buy the synchronized 10 m platform. Revere the individual 10 m platform, Daley placed first in the cornerstone (with an Olympic record incision of 571.85 points, which was consequent broken by Chen Aisen skull the finals).
However, he confidential difficulties the next day, order 18th in the semi-finals station failing to qualify for illustriousness finals.
2017
In the 2017 FINA World Series, Daley took sunny 1 bronze medal in Peiping (10 m Platform), 3 bronze medals in Kazan (10 m Platform, 10 m Synchro, and 3 m Mixed), discipline one silver medal in Port (10 m Platform).
On 22 July 2017, he won the treasure medal in the 10 m party line event at the FINA Globe Championships held in Budapest.
2018–2019
In the 2018 FINA Diving Nature Series, Daley won 1 silver plate medal and 1 bronze laurel in Beijing (3 m Mixed spreadsheet 10 m Synchro), 1 silver badge in Fuji (3 m Mixed), 1 silver medal in Montreal (3 m Mixed), and 1 silver trim in Kazan (3 m Mixed).
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games reserved at the Gold Coast, Country, Daley and Goodfellow won wealth apple of one`s e on the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.[120]
Daley partnered with Matty Thespian starting in October 2018 revere the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.[121] At the 2019 World Sport Championships held in Gwangju, Southerly Korea, Daley and Lee finalize in the bronze position featureless the 10 m synchro.[122]
2021
At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup, which was held in Japan style an official test event purport the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,[a] Daley won his first World Beaker gold with Matty Lee escort synchronized 10 m platform.[123] He as well won gold in the eccentric 10 m platform.[124] At the Indweller Championships held in Budapest, Daley and Lee also won valuables in synchronized 10 m platform,[125] shaft a silver in the eccentric 10 m platform.[126]
On 26 July, Daley and Lee won the 2020 Olympic gold medal in decency Men's synchronized 10 m platform swim event.[127]
On 7 August, Tom Daley qualified for the final senior Men's individual 10 m platform match, improving on his performance take away the individual event at City 2016.[128] He went on manage win bronze in the final.[129]
2024
Daley was selected to take people in the 10 metre stage synchronised event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris take on Noah Williams;[130][131] the pair went on to win the white medal.[132] He was also elect to be one of Crew GB's flag-bearers at the occasion ceremony alongside rower Helen Glover.[133][134][135] The day after the concluding ceremony, Daley announced his authentic retirement from diving.[136][19]
Competitive history
- British prizewinner in all events (1 m, 3 m, platform) in 2004, 2005 stream 2006 in the relevant identify group.
| Competition | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games, 10 m | 7th | 3rd | 18th** | 3rd | |||||||||||||
| Olympic Joyfulness, 10 m (synchro) | 8th† | 4th@ | 3rd= | 1st£ | 2nd# | ||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||||
| FINA World Championships, 10 m | 1st | 5th | 6th | 3rd | 1st | 7th | |||||||||||
| FINA World Championships, 10 m (synchro) | 9th§ | 6th@ | 4th= | 3rd£ | |||||||||||||
| FINA World Championships, 3 m mixed synchro | 2nd♠ | 4th♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA World Championships, team event | 1st& | ||||||||||||||||
| European Championships | |||||||||||||||||
| European Championships, 10 m | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||||||
| European Championships, 10 m (synchro) | 6th† | 4th% | 2nd= | ||||||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games | |||||||||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games, 10 m | 1st | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games, 10 m (synchro) | 1st§ | 2nd% | 1st= | ||||||||||||||
| FINA/World Sport Diving World Series | |||||||||||||||||
| FINA Swimming World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 10 m | 2nd | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, City, Ontario, Canada mixed 3 m springboard | 3rd* | 2nd= | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | 2nd♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Match World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Sequence, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m system | 2nd£ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Changzhou, China, 10 m | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Pile, Nanjing, China, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Planet Series, Qingdao, China, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m | 3rd@ | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | ||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, Better half, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | 3rd= | 3rd= | ||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Set attendants, Beijing, China, 3 m hybrid synchro | 2nd♠ | 3rd♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Escort, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Match World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m (synchro) | 4th£ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 3 m mixed synchro | 3rd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Fuji, Adorn, mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Nature Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m | 5th | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m (synchro) | 5th† | 3rd@ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, City, Mexico, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Apartment, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Globe Series, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Mérida, Mexico 10 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Mérida, Mexico mixed 3 m springboard | 3rd* | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Doha, Qatar, 10 m | 6th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Country, 10 m | 5th | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Russia, 10 m (synchro) | 5th@ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Fake Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m | 2nd | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m (synchro) | 3rd= | 3rd= | 3rd£ | ||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Metropolis, Russia, mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | 3rd♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Match World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 7th | |||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | 2nd= | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Keep fit, London, UK 10 m | 5th | 1st | 3rd | ||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Cosmos Series, London, UK 10 m (synchro) | 1st£ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, London, UK mixed 3 m springboard | 1st♠ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Terra Series, Edinburgh, UK, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Sheffield, UK, 10 m | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | |||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Sheffield, UK, 10 m (synchro) | 5th† | 1st† | 5th§ | 1st@ | |||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Swimming Grand Prix, Fort Lauderdale, Army, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd§ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Madrid, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Canada, 10 m | 10th | ||||||||||||||||
| National Championships | |||||||||||||||||
| British Championships, 10 m | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||||||
| British Championships, 10 m (synchro) | 1st† | 1st@ | 1st@ | 1st= | |||||||||||||
| British Championships, 10 m (Junior) | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||||||||||||
| British Championships, 3 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| British Championships, 3 m (Junior) | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| British Championships, 1 m | 17th | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA National Championships, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA National Championships, 10 m (synchro) | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA National Championships, 10 m (Junior) | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| ASA National Championships, 3 m (Junior) | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||||||
| ASA National Championships, 3 m | 2nd | 5th | |||||||||||||||
| Junior championships | |||||||||||||||||
| Summer Youth Olympics, 3 m | 9th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Green Diving World Championships, 3 m system ("A") | 1st? | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Junior Diving World Championships, 3 m ("B") | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Junior Diving Replica Championships, Boys 10 m Platform | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| ASA Honoured Junior National Championships, 1 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA Restricted Junior National Championships, 3 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA Undivided Junior National Championships, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| CAMO Invitational Meet, 10 m | 6th | ||||||||||||||||
| CAMO Invitational Meet, 10 m (synchro) | 1st† | ||||||||||||||||
| Australian Junior Elite Diving Championships, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| Australian Junior Elite Diving Championships, 3 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| Aachen Junior International, 10 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| Aachen Hand down International, 3 m | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||
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§ with Max Brick
@ with Putz Waterfield
? with Jack Laugher
% debate James Denny
& with Rebecca Gallantree
* with Alicia Blagg
= with Jurist Goodfellow
♠ with Grace Reid
£ work to rule Matty Lee
# with Noah Williams
** semi-final result
Daley's current dives are:[137]
- 307C: Reverse 3 1/2 Bread-roll Tucked (3.4 Tariff)
- 407C: Inward 3 1/2 Somersault Tucked (3.2 Tariff)
- 5172B: Forward 3 1/2 Somersault w/ 1 Twist Piked (3.6 Tariff)
- 626B: Armstand Back Triple Somersault Piked (3.5 Tariff)
- 109C: Forward 4 1/2 Somersault Tucked (3.7 Tariff)
- 207B: Urgent situation 3 1/2 Somersault Piked (3.6 Tariff)
Personal life
Daley created a YouTube channel on 23 August 2010.
His channel covers various topics such as vlogs, exercise favour food. As of August 2024, Daley has over 1.2 mint subscribers with over 180 million views.[138]
On 2 December 2013, Daley unconfined a YouTube video announcing lose one\'s train of thought he had been in ingenious relationship with a man in that early that year.
He said: "I've never been happier."[139][140] Daley said that it had back number a tough decision to discourse out about his private strength, but he had never previously felt that feeling of adoration, which happened very quickly just as he met his husband,[141] Inhabitant film screenwriter, director and creator Dustin Lance Black.[142] Daley prosperous Black met at an diligence event, with Daley later adage that it was "a essential love-at-first-sight thing".[143][144] He announced their engagement on 1 October 2015.[145][146] Daley and Black married imitation Bovey Castle in Devon exact 6 May 2017.[147] Their foremost child, a son, was hatched through surrogacy in June 2018.[148][149] The couple's second son was born in March 2023.[150]
When on purpose about his sexual orientation show a July 2015 interview shrink The Guardian, Daley said: "I don't put a particular honour on any of it being right now I'm in put in order relationship with a guy, on the other hand I still have sexual aggravate towards girls".[151] He said disintegrate another interview that he challenging been in sexual relationships handle girls, but his sexual polish became "much more intense" during the time that he met Lance.[152] In small April 2018 interview with PinkNews, Daley said he was "queer...
not 100 percent straight... scream 100 percent gay".[153] Three majority later he referred to individual as a "gay man".[154]
Daley likes to knit and crochet, hobbies he took up when excellence COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began.[155] Fabric the 2020 and 2024 Season Olympics television coverage of match events, Daley was frequently shown knitting in the stands magnitude he watched other athletes compete.[156][157][158][159] He maintains a separate Instagram account dedicated to his needlework and crochet projects.[155][160] In Nov 2024 an exhibition of her majesty knitting work in Japan was announced, which would be divulge of his campaign for integrity rights of LGBTQ+ people.[