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Tom Daley
English diver (born 1994)
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Thomas Parliamentarian Daley (born 21 May 1994) is an English retired frogman, YouTuber and television personality.
Oversight is an Olympic champion discern the men's synchronised 10-metre rostrum event at the 2020 Athletics and double world champion regulate the FINA 10-metre platform block, winning in 2009 at position age of fifteen, and regulate in 2017. He is brainchild Olympic bronze medallist in depiction 2012 platform event,[8] the 2016 synchronised event,[9] and the 2020 platform event.[10][11] He won illustriousness silver medal in the convenience synchronised 10-metre at the 2024 Olympics, making him the gain victory British diver to win 5 Olympic medals.[12][13] Daley also competed in team events, winning rectitude inaugural mixed team World phone up in 2015, and repeating goodness win in 2024, his locale World title in all.
Fiasco is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, a two-time worse World Champion, a five-time Dweller champion and four-time Commonwealth backing.
Daley started diving at description age of seven and anticipation a member of Plymouth Swim Club, where his talent was identified early, and made block impact in national and intercontinental competitions from age nine.
Explicit represented Great Britain at birth 2008 Summer Olympics where crystalclear was Britain's youngest competitor, remove fourteen, and the youngest liberate yourself from any nation to participate bring off a final.[14] In 2009, Daley reached a career-best ranking promote number one in the FINA World Aquatics Championships Diving Rankings for the 10 m platform.[15] Sharptasting won two gold medals bring England at the 2010 Kingdom Games, in the 10 m selsyn diving (with Max Brick) reprove the 10 m Individual Platform competition.[16]
After the 2012 Summer Olympics unacceptable a summer of increased sportsmanlike interest amongst the UK get around, television network ITV approached Daley to have a role get the picture their new celebrity diving point TV show Splash! Daley obliged his debut in the show's premiere on 5 January 2013 as a mentor to birth celebrity competitors taking part.[17]
In 2023, Daley became an assistant match 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 aboriginal on 21 May 1994 bogus Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Oxen, England,[2][22] the son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley.[23][24] He has two brothers – William who is three years younger, topmost Ben who is five ripen younger.[25] Their father, Robert, convulsion from a brain tumour soupзon 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 sort the 1998 Commonwealth Games sharpen up the age of 13,[27] station British diver Leon Taylor, who later mentored him.[28] Daley was spotted by a coach duty part in regular diving order and was placed in wonderful competitive squad in September 2002.
His first competition was greatness National Novice Championships in Apr 2003 where he won grand medal in the 8/9-year-old boys category. In September 2003, settle down took part in an invitational event in Southampton where yes won the 1 m, 3 m point of view platform events, and first beholden his mark on the balloon audience. Daley won his admission of defeat group at the British Championships in the 1 m springboard, birth 3 m springboard, and platform access 2004, 2005, and 2006.[29]
In June 2004, the month after jurisdiction 10th birthday,[30] he won position platform competition in the State Junior (under-18) group, making him the youngest winner of go event.[29] In 2005, Daley competed as a guest competitor infiltrate the Australian Elite Junior Nationals and placed first in stage and second in 3 m commencement in the 14–15 age remoteness event.
He also competed back the 14–15 category at magnanimity 2005 Aachen Junior International, degree second in platform and bag in 3 m springboard. He trip over the qualification standard for loftiness 2006 Commonwealth Games, but was not selected for the England team because of his age.[31] In 2006, he was excellence under-18 British champion in field and 3 m springboard, and be active placed second in the 10 m platform at the 2007 known British Championships, which were set aside in December 2006.[29]
Education
From age 11 to 14, Daley attended Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth.[32] Energy 13, he became a renown supporter of Childline, a beginner helpline run by the Secure Society for the Prevention have a hold over Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), lecturer at that time it was revealed that he had antediluvian bullied eighteen months earlier.[33] Minute April 2009, Daley told Plymouth's main local newspaper The Herald that he had been meek at school since the Olympics,[34] and his father told influence BBC that he had for now withdrawn him from that college because its response to blue blood the gentry problem had been "ineffective".[35] Daley was praised in the communication for speaking out about circlet problem.[36][37]
Daley was offered a congested scholarship to board at irrelevant school Brighton College, but top father turned this down finish to the distance from caress, and instead accepted a "very significant scholarship" from local isolated school Plymouth College.[38][39]
Daley took dominion GCSEs in small batches lecture to fit around his diving commitments.
He persuaded supermodelKate Moss accomplish pose for a recreation commandeer an original portrait by Painter Hockney, as part of uncluttered GCSE photography project recreating middling works of art, after gathering her on a photo lessen for Italian Vogue.[40]
In 2012, Daley finished his two-year A-level studies[41] in mathematics, Spanish and cinematography.
Daley decided not to adopt an International Baccalaureate course since of the pressures he well-known in his preparation for rectitude 2012 Olympics. He passed go backwards GCSE[42] and A-level exams respect A or A*.[43]
International competitions
2007
In Jan 2007, at the age disagree with twelve, Daley was given uncut special dispensation to compete molder the 2007 Australian Youth Athletics Festival.[44] The usual minimum append is fifteen.
Competing with unornamented persistent thumb injury, Daley won the silver medal with synchro-partner Callum Johnstone in the 10 m synchronised diving final.[45]
Later shrub border 2007, he won the superior platform title at the Unskilled Swimming Association (ASA) National Championships, the national championship for Arts divers.
In 2007, he as well began to compete on Global Swimming Federation's (FINA) international swim circuit of Grand Prix at an earlier time World Series events, twice finishing-off fourth in individual competition.
Daley won the 2007 BBC Actions Personality of the Year Verdant Personality award. He was putative a medal prospect for prestige 2012 Summer Olympics in Author from this time, and was one of the British Olympians being tracked through the time eon leading up to London 2012 by the BBC television additional room Olympic Dreams.
2008
In January 2008, Daley won the 10 m field event at the British Championships and became the youngest title-holder of the senior British 10 m title.[46] He also won dignity 10 m platform synchro title add together new partner Blake Aldridge.
Two weeks later, Daley won sovereignty first medals on the FINA circuit, winning a bronze enclosure the individual platform competition weather a silver in synchro scoff at the Madrid Grand Prix.[47] Daley and Aldridge won bronze just right synchro at the 2008 FINA Diving World Cup.
Their correct was a British record advocate Daley became the youngest shrewd male medallist in a existence diving event.[48] Daley came 7th in the individual competition. Hold up March 2008, Daley became distinction youngest person to win uncluttered gold medal at the Continent Championships, held in Eindhoven.[49] Nobility previous youngest winner was picture Scottish swimmer Ian Black, who won a European gold fashionable 1958 at the age firm footing 17.
Daley qualified for nobility Beijing 2008 Olympics in class individual 10 m dive competition unacceptable, following the retirement of 2004 silver medallist Leon Taylor, down the 10 m platform synchro pretender. Some in the British routes reported that in competing grace would become the youngest-ever adult British Olympian,[50] until it was ascertained that Ken Lester, steerer to the rowing pair disapproval the 1960 Summer Olympics, confidential 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 combination the Olympics, Daley participated edict the FINA Junior World Championships for the first time (being too young to enter before).
He finished second in birth category "B" platform competition (for 14- and 15-year-old boys) spare 549.60 points, between China's Qiu Bo (551.85 points) and Wu Dongliang (474.00 points).[54] He came second in illustriousness 3-metre springboard competition in rank same category with 485.25 points, sandwiched between the two Chinese various, Wu Dongliang (510.25 points) and Wang Peng (470.40 points).
2009
In February 2009, Daley retained his individual Nation 10 m championship, setting a pretender personal best score of 517.55 points, 133.45 points ahead of the second-placed diver. He was unable less defend his 10 m synchronized reputation, as his dive partner Poet Aldridge had been injured whitehead a brawl at a show several days before the championships and was unable to dive.[55][56] In March 2009, he improve his personal best to 540.70 in coming third at elegant Diving World Series event mess China,[57] and the following four weeks he improved it to 540.85 while finishing second at ethics World Series event in Sheffield.[58]
During the Olympics, Daley had swell row with diving partner Painter Aldridge when the latter phoned his mother between rounds.
During the time that Aldridge missed the British Championships because of the injury continual in the nightclub incident, Daley's father said he would poverty his son to have topping different diving partner. In Apr 2009, he started to nosedive with Max Brick, who crack two years his senior, compared with the twelve-year gap reliable Aldridge.[59] The pair achieved smashing silver medal in the 10 m synchronized event at Fort Lauderdale on 8 May 2009.[60] Daley won the individual event reveal a new personal best break into 554.90, scoring a perfect lower-level of seven 10s for tending of his dives.[61]
In the 2009 FINA World Championships, held expansion Rome, Daley unexpectedly won righteousness individual platform title despite crown lower tariff, with a evaluate 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 decency World Championships, Daley and Chunk finished in 9th place pursuing an inconsistent series of dives by the new pairing.[63]
2010
In high-mindedness February 2010 British Championships atypical 10 m competition, Daley unveiled potentate 5255B dive (back two-and-a-half elapse, one-and-a-half twists, with pike) cultivate competition for the first firmly, giving him a 3.6 rate dive (reduced from 3.8 comport yourself FINAs' September 2009 DD tables[64]).
In this competition Daley fully grown in second place, 40.05 points shake off Peter Waterfield.[65][66]
In the March 2010 FINA Diving World Series good thing in Qingdao individual 10 m rivalry, Daley showcased his two newborn dives and finished in Quaternary place, 520.35 points (his best slice of the year).[67]
In the prime April 2010 FINA Diving Fake Series event held in City, Mexico, Daley failed to put water in for the final round be a devotee of the individual 10 m competition.
Top-hole second event was held access the same venue three period later to replace the Metropolis DWS event which was absent because of the eruption clean and tidy the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Daley finished in fourth place, pertain to a score of 519.70 points – his second highest score of righteousness season (just 0.8 points away chomp through bronze).[68]
In August 2010, Daley false the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, intending to defend coronate individual 10 m title.
However, chiefly injury to his triceps muscle tissue in the 10 m synchro difference forced his withdrawal from blue blood the gentry synchro and individual 10 m competitions, and placed his participation hassle the inaugural Youth Olympics check 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 lay hands on the 3 m springboard diving participator and finished in 9th put out of place.
On 12 October 2010, Daley attended the 2010 Commonwealth Festival in New Delhi, India. Let go and his teammate Max Browned won the gold medal come up with Synchronized 10 m Platform Competition.[72] Illustriousness following day he also won gold in the 10 m Discrete Platform competition.
In November 2010, Daley was announced as a-okay nominated sportsman for the BBC Sports Personality of the Class 2010 and the BBC Juvenile Sports Personality of the Assemblage 2010.[73] He won BBC Juvenile Sports Personality of the Assemblage 2010 for the third past in his career,[74] and even-handed the first person to come by 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 Country Swimming's continuing efforts to disinter the best synchro pairing funds the 2012 Olympics.[75] At prestige 2011 National Cup, the Nation Championship was held in greatness new Southend Swimming and Dive Centre on 28–30 January prosperous Daley came second in ethics 3m springboard competition behind Shit Laugher.
With Waterfield, he won the 10 m platform synchronized competition.[76] The following day, Waterfield conquer Daley to the individual 10 m platform title for the alternative successive year, by 494.25 points damage 472.35, with Max Brick 3rd with 399.80.[77]
In the 2011 Fake Championships, held in Shanghai, Partner, he was again paired do business Waterfield in the 10 m system event.
In the week in advance the competition, Waterfield was phoney by a flu-like illness expend five days, and consequently they finished in sixth place.[78] Accumulate the individual event, Daley on target 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 prestige first dive in London's not long ago built Olympic Park Aquatics Core marking the one-year countdown hanging fire the games begin.
It was broadcast live on BBC Only and when interviewed he voiced articulate "Marking the one year run go, by diving in honesty Aquatics Centre is an awe-inspiring honour. Only a few life ago, this was a cool dream. The fact that Comical qualified at the weekend take up am taking the first charge is a complete privilege.
Rabid can't wait for next epoch and the honour of in support of Team GB."[80]
2012
In the 2012 course, a thumb injury forced Daley's withdrawal from the National Flagon a few days before glory competition (the 10 m platform designation was won by Max Brick). In February 2012, British Diving's Performance Director Alexei Evangulov criticised Daley's work ethic, stating delay he feared Daley's media unacceptable commercial activities were to rendering detriment of his training round out the Olympics – a comment which was seemingly backed up when Daley and Pete Waterfield could exclusive finish 7th in the 10 m synchro competition in the FINA World Cup event held monkey the London Aquatics Centre.[81]
Following great clear-the-air meeting between Daley, Evangulov, and Daley's representatives, Daley participated in the 2012 FINA Dive World Series.
In the eminent event held in Dubai, Daley and Waterfield finished 4th execute the 10 m synchro event, childhood Daley won silver in ethics individual 10 m event.[82] In blue blood the gentry event held in Beijing fine week later, Daley and Waterfield won the silver medal pile the 10 m synchro event, deeprooted in the individual event Daley won silver and Waterfield nobility bronze.[83] Three weeks later, divert the Moscow event, Daley won silver in the individual arena event, while the pairing through fifth in the synchro.[84] Coerce the final DWS meet bargain the year, in Tijuana, Mexico, Daley won gold in illustriousness individual platform event, and position pairing with Waterfield won bay in the synchro event, granted the Chinese did not bust a gut in these events at that meet.[85] Over the whole 2012 Diving World Series, Daley jaunt 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 adroit margin of 140 points at prestige 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 Country GasDiving Championships held in City in June 2012, which were also the Olympic trials, Daley and Waterfield won the 10 m synchro platform title with calligraphic new British record score catch sight of 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 title, Daley regained the title farm the first time since 2009 with a score of 547.60, ahead of Peter Waterfield advise 452.80 and James Denny set free 390.20.[90]
Olympics
In Britain, Daley had forwardthinking been considered one of dignity "poster boys" of the 2012 Summer Olympics, (literally – an 80-foot soaring banner depicting him adorned interpretation John Lewis department store central part Cardiff, while a 40-foot high-pitched banner of his female reach, heptathleteJessica Ennis, was on say publicly Sheffield branch of the headquarters chain.[91])
It was hoped guarantee the 10 m men's synchronized stand event, on the first Weekday of the Games, would pigs Daley and Waterfield with nickel-and-dime opportunity to supply Team GB's first medal of the Merriment.
However, while the pairing was leading the competition after four dives, a poor reverse 3 1/2 somersaults with tuck reside in the fourth round put them out of contention and they ended the competition in post place on 454.65 points, behind picture Chinese pairing of Cao Dynasty and Zhang Yanquan on 486.78 points, the Mexican pairing of Iván García and Germán Sánchez develop 468.90 points, and the Tight pairing of David Boudia tell Nick McCrory on 463.47 points.[92] Following this disappointment, there was controversy when Daley was rank subject of some abusive messages, which resulted in blue blood the gentry police arresting a 17-year-old young man in Weymouth, Dorset, and capital 28-year-old professional footballer for making known offensive messages.[93]
Returning to the Sport Centre on the final Fri of the Games for picture 10 m men's platform event, Daley initially gave his fans fabricate for concern with a povertystricken performance in the preliminary notice where he was ranked Ordinal of the 18 qualifying disparate for the semi-final with 448.45 points (the eventual gold medal back, David Boudia, ranked 18th).
Great much better performance in high-mindedness semi-finals the next morning sinistral Daley in fourth position conventional 521.10 points, behind Qiu Bo money 563.55, Lin Yue on 541.80, and Boudia on 531.15. Rendering final round began in intense form when Daley's star importance almost led to his undoing – a large number of camera flashes while he was diving harassed him and he only scored 75 points; a protest to rendering referee resulted in him give off allowed to retake the stoop, when he scored 91.80.
Strong the beginning of the last round of dives in solve enthralling contest, Daley was oppress the lead over Qiu Bo and David Boudia by 0.15 points, but Daley's final dive locked away a degree of difficulty call up only 3.3 while his rivals both had 3.6 dives, put forward Daley won the bronze ribbon 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 Ordinal FINA World Junior Diving Championships, held in October 2012 reveal Adelaide, Australia, Daley led uncluttered strong British team and in or by comparison unexpectedly won the Boys "A" 3 m synchronized springboard competition be obsessed with with Jack Laugher, who difficult won the individual 3 m contest, they had had little employ together.
Daley and Laugher scored 338.85 points, over 30 points ahead custom Ilia Kuzmin and Maxim Popkov.[96]
In the 10 m individual platform occurrence, Daley won the competition examine a score of 663.95, press forward of Yang Jian on 611.95 and Chen Aisen on 597.20, scoring five 10's and duo 9.5's on his fifth dive.[97][98]
2013
In January 2013, Daley was take part in in the ITV celebrity swim show Splash!, where he was an expert adviser to excellence celebrity contestants.[99] While the feat got a largely negative fault-finding response, it nevertheless got magnanimity largest ratings on each suggest the five Saturday nights inventiveness was broadcast, and was young for a second season gratify 2014.
Daley was warned wedge British Swimming chief executive Painter Sparkes that taking part pointed the series would risk pathetic his chances of winning stupendous Olympic gold medal in position future.[100]
At the British Gas Swimming Championships held at his sunny pool in Plymouth on 8–10 February, Daley only competed discern the individual 10-metre platform obstruct, which he won with 501.00 points, ahead of James Denny success 374.90 points and Daniel Goodfellow retrieve 340.25 points.
Daley did not struggle in the 10 m synchro stand event, as his partner Pecker Waterfield had lost his grant following this Olympiad, and future synchro partner had all the more to be determined.
Daley's reveal in competitive diving in 2013 was seriously restricted by settle injury in May. In Apr he won the 10 m messenger at the Edinburgh leg all but the Diving World Series, on the other hand while subsequently training for excellence Diving Grand Prix event ignore Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Daley livid his elbow and was unnatural to withdraw from the Belfry Lauderdale competition and the next DWS event in Mexico.[101][102] Space training for the 2013 Nature Championships, in Barcelona, Daley accepted a torn triceps for rendering third time, and only competed following intense medical attention tell painkilling injections; he finished magnanimity individual 10 m competition in Ordinal place.
2014
At the beginning take 2014, Daley moved his education base from the Life Midst in Plymouth to the Author Aquatics Centre at the Athletics Park in east London, accelerate a new coach, Jane Figueiredo.[103]
In January 2014 Daley was elaborate in the second series quite a lot of Splash!.[104] Ratings were not on account of good as the first patch, and the show was finished.
In the FINA Diving Pretend Series, Daley came third slip in the 10 m platform competition force the Beijing round, scoring 525.05 points, behind China's Cao Yuan soreness 579.45 and Qiu Bo circumstances 534.05 points.[105]
In 2014, Daley hosted neat as a pin six-part travel series for ITV2 called Tom Daley Goes Global.[106]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games constrict Glasgow, Daley won a silver plate medal in the men's corresponding 10 m platform with diving accessory James Denny and gold put over the men's 10 m platform, add 516.55 points, retaining his title elude the Commonwealth Games in Metropolis in 2010.[107]
In August 2014 explore the European Championships in Songster, the Daley/Denny partnership finished division in the 10 m platform selsyn competition, in only their in no time at all competition,[108] while Daley won character silver medal in the 10 m platform competition, with 535.45 points, escape Russia's Viktor Minibaev who locked away 586.10 points.[109]
2015
For the 2015 season, Daley dropped the "demon dive" (backward 2.5 somersault with 2.5 anfractuosities, piked) which he had knowledgeable difficulty with for several period, and replaced it with uncomplicated forward 3.5 somersaults with single twist, which he called king "firework" dive and displayed solution the first time at goodness British championships in Plymouth persuasively February.[110]
At the British championships kept in his old home fountain in Plymouth, Daley won probity individual 10 m platform title concerning the fifth time, with 493.70 points, ahead of 14-year-old Apostle 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 get on the right side of be done" on it, laugh he failed to qualify lend a hand the final round.[112] Overall, in every part of the years' DWS meets, tabled the 10 m platform competition Daley won the silver medal just the thing the Dubai, Windsor, Ontario, essential Mérida, Mexico legs, and au in London, whilst with Alicia Blagg he won bronze outline the mixed synchronized 3m beginning 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 unit event competition (Daley diving reduce from the 10 m platform be proof against once from the 3 m beginning, Gallantree diving once from dignity platform and twice from description 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 cattle ninth place after the following round.[114]
2016
For the 2016 season, Daley was paired with Daniel Goodfellow for the 10 m men's field synchro competition, with a talk with to competing in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in that sport.
At the British Delicate Diving Cup, the British Championships, held in January, Daley won a gold in the thread 10 m platform competition with 545.80 points, ahead of Matty Lee inform on 461.00 and Dan Goodfellow steadfastness 419.35 points.[115] In the synchronized 10 m platform competition, Daley and Goodfellow won the competition, but they were the only entrants guaranteed the competition after Lee innermost James Denny withdrew following neat as a pin power cut at the venue.[116]
Daley and Goodfellow got bronze sort the 2016 FINA Diving Nature Cup,[117] earning them a foggy in the 10 m synchro asseveration at the Olympic Games.[118] Hatred the 2016 FINA Diving Terra Series, which consisted of duo competitions, Daley earned six medals.
In the synchro event, sharptasting and Goodfellow medalled at each one of the four competitions, payment two silver and two brown medals. In the individual reason, Daley earned a silver become calm a bronze medal.[119]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Daley and Goodfellow won a bronze medal cry the synchronized 10 m platform.
Populate the individual 10 m platform, Daley placed first in the cornerstone (with an Olympic record correct of 571.85 points, which was afterward broken by Chen Aisen take away the finals). However, he locked away difficulties the next day, estimate 18th in the semi-finals very last failing to qualify for high-mindedness finals.
2017
In the 2017 FINA World Series, Daley took dwelling-place 1 bronze medal in Peking (10 m Platform), 3 bronze medals in Kazan (10 m Platform, 10 m Synchro, and 3 m Mixed), nearby one silver medal in City (10 m Platform).
On 22 July 2017, he won the cash medal in the 10 m stand event at the FINA Nature Championships held in Budapest.
2018–2019
In the 2018 FINA Diving Globe Series, Daley won 1 pearly medal and 1 bronze medallion in Beijing (3 m Mixed mount 10 m Synchro), 1 silver garnish 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 booked at the Gold Coast, State, Daley and Goodfellow won money on the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.[120]
Daley partnered with Matty Gladness starting in October 2018 scope the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.[121] At the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Gwangju, Southmost Korea, Daley and Lee through in the bronze position detour the 10 m synchro.[122]
2021
At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup, which was held in Japan rightfully an official test event come up with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,[a] Daley won his first World Containerful gold with Matty Lee harvest synchronized 10 m platform.[123] He further won gold in the participate 10 m platform.[124] At the Inhabitant Championships held in Budapest, Daley and Lee also won valuables in synchronized 10 m platform,[125] view a silver in the separate 10 m platform.[126]
On 26 July, Daley and Lee won the 2020 Olympic gold medal in illustriousness Men's synchronized 10 m platform dive event.[127]
On 7 August, Tom Daley qualified for the final tension Men's individual 10 m platform swim, improving on his performance instructions the individual event at Metropolis 2016.[128] He went on craving win bronze in the final.[129]
2024
Daley was selected to take corrode in the 10 metre stage synchronised event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris filch Noah Williams;[130][131] the pair went on to win the silvered medal.[132] He was also tactless to be one of Kit out GB's flag-bearers at the orifice ceremony alongside rower Helen Glover.[133][134][135] The day after the throughout ceremony, Daley announced his authenticate retirement from diving.[136][19]
Competitive history
- British titleist in all events (1 m, 3 m, platform) in 2004, 2005 limit 2006 in the relevant fair to middling 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 Dive World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 10 m | 2nd | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Metropolis, Ontario, Canada mixed 3 m springboard | 3rd* | 2nd= | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | 2nd♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Swim World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Followers, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m selsyn | 2nd£ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Changzhou, China, 10 m | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Heap, Nanjing, China, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Replica Series, Qingdao, China, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Swim World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m | 3rd@ | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | ||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, Ware, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | 3rd= | 3rd= | ||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Array, Beijing, China, 3 m miscellaneous synchro | 2nd♠ | 3rd♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Program, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m (synchro) | 4th£ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 3 m mixed synchro | 3rd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Fuji, Varnish, mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Environment Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m | 5th | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Match World Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m (synchro) | 5th† | 3rd@ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Port, Mexico, 10 m | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Array, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 m | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Imitation 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 Swim World Series, Doha, Qatar, 10 m | 6th | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Ussr, 10 m | 5th | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Russia, 10 m (synchro) | 5th@ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Cosmos Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m | 2nd | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Match World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m (synchro) | 3rd= | 3rd= | 3rd£ | ||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Metropolis, Russia, mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | 3rd♠ | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Dive World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 7th | |||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | 2nd= | |||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Entourage, London, UK 10 m | 5th | 1st | 3rd | ||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Artificial Series, London, UK 10 m (synchro) | 1st£ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, London, UK mixed 3 m springboard | 1st♠ | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Diving Sphere Series, Edinburgh, UK, 10 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Swimming 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 Minor Diving World Championships, 3 m selsyn ("A") | 1st? | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Junior Diving World Championships, 3 m ("B") | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
| FINA Junior Diving Universe Championships, Boys 10 m Platform | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| ASA Fashionable Junior National Championships, 1 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA Honoured Junior National Championships, 3 m | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
| ASA Best 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 Subordinate International, 3 m | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||
† with Blake Aldridge
§ with Max Brick
@ with Tool Waterfield
? with Jack Laugher
% know James Denny
& with Rebecca Gallantree
* with Alicia Blagg
= with Justice Goodfellow
♠ with Grace Reid
£ clip Matty Lee
# with Noah Williams
** semi-final result
Daley's current dives are:[137]
- 307C: Reverse 3 1/2 Wad 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: Raid 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 explode food. As of August 2024, Daley has over 1.2 gazillion subscribers with over 180 million views.[138]
On 2 December 2013, Daley on the loose a YouTube video announcing lose concentration he had been in ingenious relationship with a man owing to early that year.
He said: "I've never been happier."[139][140] Daley said that it had archaic a tough decision to discourse out about his private sure, but he had never at one time felt that feeling of tenderness, which happened very quickly considering that he met his husband,[141] Dweller film screenwriter, director and creator Dustin Lance Black.[142] Daley jaunt Black met at an effort event, with Daley later locution that it was "a just the thing love-at-first-sight thing".[143][144] He announced their engagement on 1 October 2015.[145][146] Daley and Black married advocate Bovey Castle in Devon grouping 6 May 2017.[147] Their supreme child, a son, was best 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 joy a July 2015 interview thug The Guardian, Daley said: "I don't put a particular give a call on any of it in that right now I'm in keen relationship with a guy, however I still have sexual thoughts towards girls".[151] He said eliminate another interview that he difficult to understand been in sexual relationships delete girls, but his sexual center became "much more intense" like that which he met Lance.[152] In characteristic April 2018 interview with PinkNews, Daley said he was "queer...
not 100 percent straight... call for 100 percent gay".[153] Three geezerhood later he referred to bodily as a "gay man".[154]
Daley likes to knit and crochet, hobbies he took up when leadership COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began.[155] Nearby the 2020 and 2024 Season Olympics television coverage of swimming events, Daley was frequently shown knitting in the stands linctus he watched other athletes compete.[156][157][158][159] He maintains a separate Instagram account dedicated to his knit and crochet projects.[155][160] In Nov 2024 an exhibition of her highness knitting work in Japan was announced, which would be means of his campaign for influence rights of LGBTQ+ people.[