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{{Short description|English diver (born 1994)}} |
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| fullname = Thomas Robert Daley |
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| name = Tom Daley |
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| caption = Daley in 2012 |
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| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1994|05|21|df=y}} |
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| fullname = Thomas Robert Daley |
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| birthplace = [[Plymouth]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]] |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|5|21|df=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]], England |
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| occupation = {{hlist|Diver|television personality}} |
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| height = 1.73 m <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1018103/thomas-daley/profile | title=Thomas DALEY | Profile | World Aquatics Official }}</ref> |
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| weight = {{convert|74|kg|stlb}}<ref name="Team GB"/> |
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| spouse = {{marriage|[[Dustin Lance Black]]|2017}} |
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{{MedalSport|Men's [[Diving]]}} |
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| children = 2 |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[European LC Championships|European Championships]]}} |
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| country = Great Britain<br />England |
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{{MedalGold|[[European LC Championships 2008|2008 Eindhoven]]|[[Diving platforms|10 metre platform]]}} |
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| sport = [[Diving (sport)|Diving]] |
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| event = 3 m, 3 m synchro, 10 m, 10 m synchro |
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| club = Plymouth Diving Club<br />London High Performance Centre<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/diving/mens-world-class-podium/thomas-tom-daley/152/ |title=Tom Daley | British Swimming |publisher=Swimming.org |access-date=26 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114234/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/diving/mens-world-class-podium/thomas-tom-daley/152/ |archive-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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| partner = [[Noah Williams (diver)|Noah Williams]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/tom-daley-olympics-diving-gb |publisher=NBC Sports|date=8 May 2004 |title=Tom Daley named to fifth British Olympic diving team with new synchro partner }}</ref><br /> [[Matty Lee]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Daley & Jack Laugher change diving partners ahead of Tokyo 2020 |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/diving/45934960 |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=21 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410191358/https://www.bbc.com/sport/diving/45934960 |archive-date=10 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /> |
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[[Daniel Goodfellow]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/21/tom-daley-dan-goodfellow-2016-olympics-diving |title=Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow book place at 2016 Olympics in Rio |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=13 May 2016 |date=21 February 2016 |agency=Press Association |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609234039/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/21/tom-daley-dan-goodfellow-2016-olympics-diving |archive-date=9 June 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><br />[[Grace Reid]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/diving/daley-reid-seal-national-cup-title |title=Daley and Reid seal National Cup title |website=swimming.org |date=3 February 2017 |access-date=8 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210110240/http://www.swimming.org/diving/daley-reid-seal-national-cup-title/ |archive-date=10 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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| coach = [[Jane Figueiredo]] |
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| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|[[Diving (sport)|Diving]]}} |
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|[[Diving at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]|1|1|3 |
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|[[World Diving Championships|World Championships]]|4|2|2 |
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|[[LEN European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]]|5|3|0 |
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|[[Diving at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]|4|1|0 |
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{{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}} |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Diving at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Tokyo]]|[[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|[[2024 Summer Olympics|2024 Paris]]|[[Diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalBronze|[[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London]]|[[Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalBronze|[[2016 Summer Olympics|2016 Rio de Janeiro]]|[[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalBronze|2020 Tokyo|[[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[World Diving Championships|World Championships]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2009 World Aquatics Championships|2009 Rome]]|[[Diving at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2015 World Aquatics Championships|2015 Kazan]]|[[Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Team event|Team event]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2017 World Aquatics Championships|2017 Budapest]]|[[Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2024 World Aquatics Championships|2024 Doha]]|[[Diving at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Team event|Team event]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2017 Budapest|[[Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Mixed synchronized 3 metre springboard|3 m mixed synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2024 Doha|[[Diving at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalBronze|2015 Kazan|[[Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalBronze|[[2019 World Aquatics Championships|2019 Gwangju]]|[[Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[LEN European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2008 European Aquatics Championships|2008 Eindhoven]]|10 m platform}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2012 European Aquatics Championships|2012 Eindhoven]]|[[Diving at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2016 European Aquatics Championships|2016 London]]|[[Diving at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|2016 London|[[Diving at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Mixed 3 m springboard synchro|Mixed 3 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2020 European Aquatics Championships|2020 Budapest]]|[[Diving at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m synchro platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|[[2014 European Aquatics Championships|2014 Berlin]]|[[Diving at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2016 London|[[Diving at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m synchro platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2020 Budapest|[[Diving at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalCompetition|Junior World Championships}} |
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{{MedalGold|2012 Adelaide|10 m platform}} |
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{{MedalGold|2012 Adelaide|Synchro 3 m springboard}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2008 Aachen|10 m platform}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2008 Aachen|3 m springboard}} |
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{{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Diving at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2010 Commonwealth Games|2010 Delhi]]|[[Diving at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|2010 Delhi|[[Diving at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2014 Commonwealth Games|2014 Glasgow]]|[[Diving at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m platform]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2018 Commonwealth Games|2018 Gold Coast]]|[[Diving at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2014 Glasgow|[[Diving at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]]}} |
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'''Thomas Robert Daley''' (born 21 May 1994) is an English retired [[Diving (sport)|diver]], [[YouTuber]] and television personality. He is an [[Olympic medal|Olympic champion]] in the [[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|men's synchronised 10-metre platform]] event at the [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Olympics]] and double [[World Diving Championships|world champion]] in the [[FINA]] 10-metre platform event, winning in [[Diving at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|2009]] at the age of fifteen, and again in [[Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|2017]]. He is an Olympic bronze medallist in the [[Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|2012 platform]] event,<ref>{{Cite web|title=DIVING 10M PLATFORM MEN RESULTS|url=https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/london-2012/results/diving/10m-platform-men|website=Olympics.com}}</ref> the [[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|2016 synchronised]] event,<ref>{{Cite web|title=RIO 2016 SYNCHRONIZED DIVING 10M PLATFORM MEN RESULTS|url=https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/rio2016/results/diving/synchronized-diving-10m-platform-men|website=Olympics.com}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the [[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|2020 platform]] event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.swimming.org/diving/tom-daley-tokyo-2020-olympic-games-bronze/|title=Tom Daley makes history after adding a bronze medal to his glistening gold|date=7 August 2021|website=Swim England Diving Sport Hub}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=7 August 2021|title=Diving – Final Results|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/diving/results-men-s-10m-platform-fnl-000100-.htm|work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|publisher=[[Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games]]|access-date=7 August 2021|archive-date=7 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807073628/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/diving/results-men-s-10m-platform-fnl-000100-.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He won the silver medal in the men's synchronised 10-metre at the [[2024 Summer Olympics|2024 Olympics]], making him the first British diver to win 5 Olympic medals.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055677/tom-daley-olympics-2024-diving-knitting#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Tom%20Daley%2C%20British%20diver%2C%20knitter%20and%20fan%20favorite%2C%20wins,hobby%20at%20the%20Tokyo%20Olympics. {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas DALEY {{!}} Results {{!}} World Aquatics Official |url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1018103/www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1018103/thomas-daley |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=World Aquatics |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Daley also competed in team events, winning the [[Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Team event|inaugural mixed team World title]] in 2015, and repeating the win in 2024, his fourth World title in all. He is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, a two-time junior World Champion, a five-time [[LEN European Aquatics Championships|European champion]] and four-time [[Diving at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth champion]]. |
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Daley started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club, where his talent was identified early, and made an impact in national and international competitions from age nine. He represented [[Great Britain at the Olympics|Great Britain]] at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] where he was Britain's youngest competitor, age fourteen, and the youngest from any nation to participate in a final.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/A.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822051046/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/A.shtml |archive-date=22 August 2008 |title=Beijing 2008 official site, Competition Information, Athletes and Teams |date=22 August 2008 |access-date=21 July 2012}}</ref> In 2009, Daley reached a career-best ranking of number one in the [[FINA World Aquatics Championships]] Diving Rankings for the 10 m platform.<ref name="FINA Rank">{{cite web |url=http://www.zssw.unibe.ch/fina/fina10mm.php |title=Fina Diving World Ranking |access-date=11 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219091858/http://www.zssw.unibe.ch/fina/fina10mm.php |archive-date=19 December 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> He won two gold medals for England at the [[2010 Commonwealth Games]], in the 10 m synchro diving (with [[Max Brick]]) and the 10 m Individual Platform competition.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonwealth_games/delhi_2010/9082591.stm |title=Delhi 2010: Tom Daley and Max Brick win diving gold |work=BBC News |date=12 October 2010 |access-date=8 December 2013}}</ref> |
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'''Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley''' (born [[21 May]] [[1994]] in [[Plymouth]], [[England]]<ref name="Hero">{{cite news | date=[[2006]] | url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/AYOF07/athlete.aspx?sp=DV%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&at=6509 | title=Thomas Daley Biography | publisher=Olympics.org.uk | accessdate=2007-02-12 | author= }}</ref>) is an [[England|English]] [[diving|diver]], who specialises in the [[Diving platforms|10 metre platform event]]. He started diving at the age of seven, and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club. He has made an impact in national and international competition at an early age. His early diving heroes were [[Canada|Canadian]] diver [[Alexandre Despatie]], who won gold at the [[1998 Commonwealth Games]] at the age of 13,<ref name="Hero"/> and British diver [[Leon Taylor]]. |
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After the 2012 Summer Olympics and a summer of increased sporting interest amongst the UK public, television network [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] approached Daley to have a role in their new celebrity diving reality TV show ''[[Splash! (British TV series)|Splash!]]'' Daley made his debut in the show's premiere on 5 January 2013 as a mentor to the celebrity competitors taking part.<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Sweney |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/07/tom-daley-splash-itv-tv-ratings |title=Tom Daley proves he's chairman of the board with solid debut for Splash! |work=The Guardian |date=7 January 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204183945/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/07/tom-daley-splash-itv-tv-ratings |archive-date=4 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In May 2008, he was ranked 6th in the [[FINA]] Diving World Rankings men's 10-metre platform category, and by the following July he was ranked equal 17th, due to not participating in recent FINA Grand Prix meetings.<ref name="FINA Rank">[http://isswlx.unibe.ch/group/fina/fina10mm.php Fina Diving World Ranking]</ref> He has qualified for the [[Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics|British team]] to the [[Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Summer Olympics]] in the 10m platform and in the 10m platform synchro competition. |
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In 2023, Daley became an assistant diving coach at [[UCLA Bruins|UCLA]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Three Swim and Dive Bruins to Compete at Paris Olympics |url=https://uclabruins.com/news/2024/7/23/three-swim-and-dive-bruins-to-compete-at-paris-olympics |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=UCLA |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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===Early career=== |
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Daley won his age-group at the British Championships in the 1m springboard, the 3m springboard, and platform in 2004, 2006, and 2006. |
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In August 2024, a day after the 2024 Summer Olympics concluded, Daley announced his retirement from professional diving.<ref name=":1" /> |
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In June 2004, at age ten, he won the platform competition in the National Junior (under 18) group, making him the youngest winner of that event. |
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==Early life== |
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In 2005 he competed as a guest competitor in the Australian Elite Junior Nationals, and placed first in platform and second in 3m springboard in the 14-15 age group event. He also competed in the 14-15 category at the 2005 Aachen Junior International, placing second in platform and third in 3m springboard. In 2006 he was the under-18 British champion in platform and springboard, and he placed second in the 10m platform at the 2007 senior British Championships, which were held in December 2006. |
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Thomas Robert Daley<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/diving/2292753/Diver-Tom-Daley-13-to-make-Olympic-history.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911150709/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/diving/2292753/Diver-Tom-Daley-13-to-make-Olympic-history.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2012 |title=Diver Tom Daley, 13, to make Olympic history |access-date=29 August 2008 |author=Lonsbrough, Anita |date=25 February 2008 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |quote=When Thomas Robert Daley dives... |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gunston |first=Jo |date=2024-02-06 |title=Tom Daley's life less ordinary in the two years he's been away from diving |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/tom-daley-life-less-ordinary-two-years-away-diving |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=[[Olympics.com]]}}</ref> was born on 21 May 1994 at [[Derriford Hospital]] in [[Plymouth]], Devon, England,<ref name="Team GB">{{cite web |url=http://www.teamgb.com/athletes/tom-daley |title=Tom Daley |publisher=[[Team GB]] |access-date=5 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102014351/http://www.teamgb.com/athletes/tom-daley |archive-date=2 January 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Daley|first=Tom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9cgbkdl5DsC&dq=tom+daley+born+hospital&pg=PT18|title=My Story: The official story of inspirational Olympic legend Tom Daley|date=24 May 2012|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-1-4059-0950-1|language=en}}</ref> the son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/may/28/diving-champion-tom-daleys-father-robert-dies |title=Tom Daley's father dies of cancer |author=Ben Quinn |work=The Guardian |date=28 May 2011 |access-date=17 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213091119/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/may/28/diving-champion-tom-daleys-father-robert-dies |archive-date=13 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/TEAM-DALEY-CHEER-TOM/story-12674548-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141125144303/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/TEAM-DALEY-CHEER-TOM/story-12674548-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 November 2014 |title=Team Daley cheer on Tom |work=Plymouth Herald}}</ref> He has two brothers{{snd}}William who is three years younger, and Ben who is five years younger.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-13693046 |work=BBC News |title=Tom Daley mourns father Rob at funeral in Plymouth |date=8 June 2011 |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007111335/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-13693046 |archive-date=7 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Their father, Robert, died from a brain tumour on 27 May 2011, aged 40, a few days after Daley's 17th birthday.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/diving/13583152.stm |title=Tom Daley's father Rob loses battle with cancer |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=28 May 2011 |access-date=28 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528112524/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/diving/13583152.stm |archive-date=28 May 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> His early diving hero was Canadian diver [[Alexandre Despatie]], who won gold at the [[1998 Commonwealth Games]] at the age of 13,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/2529552/Tom-Daley-should-not-be-in-Beijing-Olympics.html |title=Tom Daley should not be in Beijing Olympics |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 August 2008 |access-date=5 January 2013 |location=London |first=Mark |last=Reason |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205190758/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/2529552/Tom-Daley-should-not-be-in-Beijing-Olympics.html |archive-date=5 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> and British diver [[Leon Taylor]], who later mentored him.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/national-school-sport-week/9344963/leon-taylor-mentoring-olympians-the-future.html |title=Leon Taylor: mentoring the Olympians of the future |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=20 June 2012 |access-date=5 January 2013 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702101428/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/national-school-sport-week/9344963/leon-taylor-mentoring-olympians-the-future.html |archive-date=2 July 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Daley was spotted by a coach taking part in regular diving lessons and was placed in a competitive squad in September 2002. His first competition was the National Novice Championships in April 2003 where he won a medal in the 8/9-year-old boys category. In September 2003, he took part in an invitational event in Southampton where he won the 1 m, 3 m and platform events, and first made his mark on the wider audience. Daley won his age group at the British Championships in the 1 m springboard, the 3 m springboard, and platform in 2004, 2005, and 2006.<ref name="PlymouthDCProfile">{{cite web |url=http://www.plymouthdiving.com/coachdiverprofiles/thomas.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821225246/http://www.plymouthdiving.com/coachdiverprofiles/thomas.html |archive-date=21 August 2008 |title=Thomas Daley – Mens Platform World Champion 2009 |publisher=Plymouth Diving |access-date=27 September 2009}}</ref> |
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In June 2004, the month after his 10th birthday,<ref>There is some confusion concerning his age on first winning the British U18 title: a few reports, including his mother, have stated that he was 9, but his official British Swimming profile states he was 10.</ref> he won the platform competition in the National Junior (under-18) group, making him the youngest winner of that event.<ref name="PlymouthDCProfile"/> In 2005, Daley competed as a guest competitor in the Australian Elite Junior Nationals and placed first in platform and second in 3 m springboard in the 14–15 [[Demographic profile|age group]] event. He also competed in the 14–15 category at the 2005 Aachen Junior International, placing second in platform and third in 3 m springboard. He met the qualification standard for the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]], but was not selected for the England team because of his age.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/15/2303836.htm |title=Tom Daley: Set to make a splash at Beijing |access-date=22 July 2008 |date=15 July 2008 |publisher=ABC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330220100/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/15/2303836.htm |archive-date=30 March 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2006, he was the under-18 British champion in platform and 3 m springboard, and he placed second in the 10 m platform at the 2007 senior British Championships, which were held in December 2006.<!-- The British Championships are normally held in January; 2007's were held the month before. ---><ref name="PlymouthDCProfile" /> |
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===International success=== |
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In January 2007, at the age of twelve, Daley was given a special dispensation to compete at the [[2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival]]. The usual minimum age is fifteen. Competing with a persistent thumb injury, Daley won the silver medal with synchro-partner [[Callum Johnstone]] in the 10-metre synchronised-diving final. |
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===Education=== |
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Later in 2007, he won the senior platform title at the [[Amateur Swimming Association]] (ASA) National Championships, a national-level championship for English divers. That year he began to compete on [[FINA]]'s international diving circuit of Grand Prix and World Series events, twice finishing fourth in individual competition. |
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From age 11 to 14, Daley attended [[Eggbuckland Community College]] in Plymouth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Olympic-hero-Tom-Daley-goes-school/story-11240535-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913014859/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Olympic-hero-Tom-Daley-goes-school/story-11240535-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 September 2012 |title=tom daley olympic hero goes back to school, Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth, Devon |publisher=This is Bristol |date=3 September 2008 |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> At 13, he became a celebrity supporter of [[Childline]], a children's helpline run by the [[National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children]] (NSPCC), and at that time it was revealed that he had been bullied eighteen months earlier.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo/celebritysupporters/celebritynews/13yearolddiverTomDaleymakesasplashforchildline_wda57287.html |title=13 Year old British Olympian pledges support for the NSPCC |year=2008 |work=nspcc.org.uk |publisher=NSPCC |access-date=9 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201122541/http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo/celebritysupporters/celebritynews/13yearolddiverTomDaleymakesasplashforchildline_wda57287.html |archive-date=1 December 2008}}</ref> In April 2009, Daley told Plymouth's main local newspaper ''[[The Herald (Plymouth)|The Herald]]'' that he had been bullied at school since the Olympics,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/STAR-TOM-TAUNTED-PLAYGROUND-BULLIES/article-925103-detail/article.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426040147/http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/STAR-TOM-TAUNTED-PLAYGROUND-BULLIES/article-925103-detail/article.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 April 2009 |title=Star Tom Daley taunted by playground bullies |date=23 April 2009 |work=Plymouth Herald |access-date=9 April 2010}}</ref> and his father told the BBC that he had temporarily withdrawn him from that school because its response to the problem had been "ineffective".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8014974.stm |title=Dive star Daley bullied at school |date=23 April 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=9 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427155516/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8014974.stm |archive-date=27 April 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> Daley was praised in the media for speaking out about his problem.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8010000/newsid_8018100/8018148.stm |title=Charity backs bullied Tom Daley |date=25 April 2009 |work=CBBC Newsround |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501000034/http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8010000/newsid_8018100/8018148.stm |archive-date=1 May 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/An-Olympic-hero-aged-just.5202095.jp |title=An Olympic hero aged just 14 – but bullies make his life hell |author=Shân Ross |date=24 April 2009 |work=The Scotsman |publisher=Johnston Press Digital Publishing |access-date=9 April 2010 |location=Edinburgh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604140342/http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/An-Olympic-hero-aged-just.5202095.jp |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Daley was offered a full scholarship to board at independent school [[Brighton College]], but his father turned this down due to the distance from home, and instead accepted a "very significant scholarship" from local independent school [[Plymouth College]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/private-schools-compete-for-tom-daley-kbgvg383hqr|url-access=subscription|title=Private schools compete for Tom Daley |author=Joanna Sugden |date=24 April 2009 |work=The Times|location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604231806/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6162514.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8078840.stm |title=Dive star moves to public school |date=2 June 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=9 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607201328/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8078840.stm |archive-date=7 June 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In January 2008 he won the 10m platform event at the British Championships to become the youngest winner of the senior British 10m title.<ref>[http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article3315074.ece "Daley, 13, close to clinching Olympic place"], ''sport.independent.co.uk'', [[7 January]] 2008</ref> He also won the 10m platform synchro title with new partner [[Blake Aldridge]]. |
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Daley took his [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSEs]] in small batches to fit around his diving commitments. He persuaded [[supermodel]] [[Kate Moss]] to pose for a recreation of an original portrait by [[David Hockney]], as part of a GCSE photography project recreating great works of art, after meeting her on a photo shoot for Italian ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/may/23/dream-best-dive-tom-daley |title=London 2012: 'I dream of doing my best dive,' says Tom Daley |work=The Guardian |first=Stuart |last=Jeffries |date=23 May 2012 |access-date=15 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213095133/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/may/23/dream-best-dive-tom-daley |archive-date=13 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Two weeks later he won his first medals on the FINA circuit, winning a bronze in the individual platform competition and a silver in synchro at the Madrid Grand Prix.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2008/01/21/sodive121.xml "Tom Daley wins two diving medals in Madrid"], ''telegraph.co.uk'', [[20 January]] 2008.</ref> Daley and Aldridge won bronze in synchro at the 2008 FINA Diving World Cup. Their score was a British record, and Daley became the youngest-ever male medallist in a world diving event.<ref>[http://www.plymouthdiving.com/downloads/pressreleases/thomasdaleyworldcup.html "Thomas Daley Delivers with Bronze at the World Cup"], ''plymouthdiving.com'', [[22 February]] 2008.</ref> Daley came seventh in the individual competition. In March 2008, Daley became the youngest person to win a gold medal at the [[European LC Championships 2008|2008 European Swimming Championships]], held in [[Eindhoven]].<ref name="Eurogold">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/diving/7311733.stm "Youngster Daley claims Euro gold"] - BBC.co.uk</ref> The previous youngest winner was the Scottish swimmer [[Ian Black (swimmer)|Ian Black]], who won a European gold in 1958 at the age of 17. |
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In 2012, Daley finished his two-year [[GCE Advanced Level|A-level]] studies<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/oct/30/tom-daley-decca-aitkenhead-interview |title=Tom Daley: Man and boy |date=October 2010 |work=The Guardian |access-date=30 October 2010 |location=London |first=Decca |last=Aitkenhead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224034613/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/oct/30/tom-daley-decca-aitkenhead-interview |archive-date=24 February 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> in [[mathematics]], Spanish and [[photography]]. Daley decided not to undertake an [[International Baccalaureate]] course because of the pressures he faced in his preparation for the 2012 Olympics. He passed all GCSE<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/8944166.stm |title=GB diver Tom Daley gets top marks in GCSE exams |work=BBC Sport |date=25 August 2010 |access-date=14 September 2013}}</ref> and A-level exams with A or A*.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/10244592/A-level-results-2013-Olympic-diver-Tom-Daley-achieves-straight-As.html |title=A-level results 2013: Olympic diver Tom Daley achieves straight As |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 August 2013 |access-date=14 September 2013 |location=London |first=Alice |last=Philipson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819212212/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/10244592/A-level-results-2013-Olympic-diver-Tom-Daley-achieves-straight-As.html |archive-date=19 August 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Daley has qualified for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in the individual 10 metre dive competition and, following the retirement of 2004 silver medallist [[Leon Taylor]], in the 10 metre platform synchro competition. It was initially claimed by the British media that in competing he would become the youngest-ever male British Olympian,<ref>[http://sport.guardian.co.uk/athletics/story/0,,2259618,00.html "13 year-old Daley heads to Bejing"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[24 February]] [[2008]].</ref> but it was later realised that [[Ken Lester]], [[Coxswain (rowing)|cox]] to the rowing pair at the 1960 Olympic Games, was only 13 years and 144 days old at the time.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.html?in_article_id=518650&in_page_id=1781 "Daley is not the youngest Olympian"], ''[[Daily Mail]]'', [[25 February]] [[2008]].</ref> |
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==International competitions== |
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Daley won the 2007 [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality]] award. He is considered a medal prospect for the [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Olympic Games]] in [[London]], and receives financial support from the British government's Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme. <ref name="mirror">[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16201950&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=london-2012--growing-for-gold-name_page.html "Growing for Gold"], Daily Mirror, 3 October 2005</ref> |
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===2007=== |
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In January 2007, at the age of twelve, Daley was given a special dispensation to compete at the [[2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dator|first=James|date=5 August 2021|title=Tom Daley is the activist Olympian making a difference around the world|url=https://www.sbnation.com/2021/8/5/22611821/tom-daley-olympics-diving-lgbtq-activism|access-date=30 September 2021|website=SBNation|language=en}}</ref> The usual minimum age is fifteen. Competing with a persistent thumb injury, Daley won the silver medal with synchro-partner Callum Johnstone in the 10 m synchronised diving final.<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 May 2012|title=London 2012: 'I dream of doing my best dive,' says Tom Daley|url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/may/23/dream-best-dive-tom-daley|access-date=30 September 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> |
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He is one of the British Olympic hopefuls being tracked through the years leading up to London 2012 by the BBC television series ''[[Olympic Dreams]]''. |
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Later in 2007, he won the senior platform title at the [[British Swimming|Amateur Swimming Association]] (ASA) National Championships, the national championship for English divers. In 2007, he also began to compete on [[FINA|International Swimming Federation]]'s (FINA) international diving circuit of Grand Prix and World Series events, twice finishing fourth in individual competition.[[File:Tom Daley (diver), October 2008.jpg|thumb|right|Daley in 2008]] Daley won the 2007 [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality]] award. He was considered a medal prospect for the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in London from this time, and was one of the British Olympians being tracked through the years leading up to London 2012 by the BBC television series ''[[Olympic Dreams (TV Series)|Olympic Dreams]]''. |
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===2008=== |
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In January 2008, Daley won the 10 m platform event at the British Championships and became the youngest winner of the senior British 10 m title.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article3315074.ece |title=Diving: Daley, 13, close to clinching Olympic place |last=Harris |first=Nick |date=7 January 2008 |website=The Independent |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110110246/http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article3315074.ece |archive-date=10 January 2008}}</ref> He also won the 10 m platform synchro title with new partner [[Blake Aldridge]]. |
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Two weeks later, Daley won his first medals on the FINA circuit, winning a bronze in the individual platform competition and a silver in synchro at the Madrid Grand Prix.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2008/01/21/sodive121.xml |title=Tom Daley wins two diving medals in Madrid |date=20 January 2008 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303122706/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=%2Fsport%2F2008%2F01%2F21%2Fsodive121.xml |archive-date=3 March 2008 }}</ref> Daley and Aldridge won bronze in synchro at the 2008 FINA Diving World Cup. Their score was a British record and Daley became the youngest ever male medallist in a world diving event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.plymouthdiving.com/downloads/pressreleases/thomasdaleyworldcup.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502231222/http://www.plymouthdiving.com/downloads/pressreleases/thomasdaleyworldcup.html |archive-date=2 May 2008 |title=Thomas Daley Delivers with Bronze at the World Cup |date=2 May 2008 |access-date=21 July 2012}}</ref> Daley came seventh in the individual competition. In March 2008, Daley became the youngest person to win a gold medal at the [[2008 European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]], held in [[Eindhoven]].<ref name="Eurogold">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/diving/7311733.stm |title=Youngster Daley claims Euro gold |date=24 March 2008 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328173235/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/diving/7311733.stm |archive-date=28 March 2008}}</ref> The previous youngest winner was the Scottish swimmer [[Ian Black (swimmer)|Ian Black]], who won a European gold in 1958 at the age of 17. |
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Daley qualified for the [[2008 Summer Olympics|Beijing 2008 Olympics]] in the individual 10 m dive competition and, following the retirement of 2004 silver medallist [[Leon Taylor]], in the 10 m platform synchro competition. Some in the British media reported that in competing he would become the youngest-ever male British Olympian,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sport.guardian.co.uk/athletics/story/0,,2259618,00.html |title=13 year-old Daley heads to Bejing [sic]|date=24 February 2008 |website=The Guardian |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228033821/http://sport.guardian.co.uk/athletics/story/0,,2259618,00.html |archive-date=28 February 2008}}</ref> until it was ascertained that Ken Lester, [[Coxswain (rowing)|cox]] to the rowing pair at the [[1960 Summer Olympics]], had been 13 years and 144 days old at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/diving/7251148.stm |title=Teen Daley qualifies for Olympics |work=BBC Sport |date=24 February 2008 |access-date=14 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225172643/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/diving/7251148.stm |archive-date=25 February 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the Olympic synchronized 10 m platform competition, they placed eighth,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,14935_3964469,00.html |title=Daley's diving disappointment |last=Higham |first=Paul |date=11 August 2008 |website=Sky Sports |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080903015034/http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,14935_3964469,00.html |archive-date=3 September 2008}}</ref> while in the individual 10 m platform competition, he finished seventh.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2608387/Great-Britains-diving-sensation-Tom-Daley-finishes-seventh-in-10m-platform-final.html |title=Great Britain's diving sensation Tom Daley finishes seventh in 10 m platform final |date=23 August 2008 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080903115548/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2608387/Great-Britains-diving-sensation-Tom-Daley-finishes-seventh-in-10m-platform-final.html |archive-date=3 September 2008}}</ref> |
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A month after his appearance at the Olympics, Daley participated in the FINA Junior World Championships for the first time (being too young to enter before). He finished second in the category "B" platform competition (for 14- and 15-year-old boys) with 549.60 points, between China's [[Qiu Bo]] (551.85 points) and Wu Dongliang (474.00 points).<ref>[https://www.ssl-id.de/www.sportlicht.com/event/live/results/50/RESULT_COMP_9_2.pdf?PHPSESSID=a9cbecf9f5ffffa6bbdff6e7b28b92b6 "Platform Boys Final – Youth B"]{{Dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref> He came second in the 3-metre springboard competition in the same category with 485.25 points, sandwiched between the two Chinese divers, Wu Dongliang (510.25 points) and Wang Peng (470.40 points). |
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===2009=== |
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In February 2009, Daley retained his individual British 10 m championship, setting a competition personal best score of 517.55 points, 133.45 points ahead of the second-placed diver. He was unable to defend his 10 m synchronized title, as his dive partner Blake Aldridge had been injured in a brawl at a nightclub several days before the championships and was unable to dive.<ref>{{cite news |title=Daley sets new PB as he takes British title |newspaper=Plymouth Herald |date=7 February 2009 |url=http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/sport/Daley-sets-new-PB-takes-British-title/article-680034-detail/article.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210020738/http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/sport/Daley-sets-new-PB-takes-British-title/article-680034-detail/article.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 February 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Olympic diver Blake Aldridge injured in nightclub attack |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 February 2009 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4543314/Olympic-diver-Blake-Aldridge-injured-in-nightclub-attack.html |location=London |access-date=25 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211194454/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4543314/Olympic-diver-Blake-Aldridge-injured-in-nightclub-attack.html |archive-date=11 February 2009}}</ref> In March 2009, he improved his personal best to 540.70 in coming third at a Diving World Series event in China,<ref>{{cite news |title=Daley takes World Series bronze |work=BBC Sport |date=28 March 2009 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/swimming/7969862.stm |access-date=28 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330015829/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/swimming/7969862.stm |archive-date=30 March 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the following month he improved it to 540.85 while finishing second at the World Series event in [[Sheffield]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Daley secures World Series silver |work=BBC Sport |date=19 April 2009 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/swimming/8007342.stm}}</ref> |
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During the Olympics, Daley had a row with diving partner [[Blake Aldridge]] when the latter phoned his mother between rounds. When Aldridge missed the British Championships because of the injury sustained in the nightclub incident, Daley's father said he would like his son to have a different diving partner. In April 2009, he started to dive with [[Max Brick]], who is two years his senior, compared with the twelve-year gap with Aldridge.<ref name="new-partner">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/swimming/7987303.stm |title=Daley's new diving partner named |last=Shea |first=Julian |date=7 April 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=8 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411001646/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/swimming/7987303.stm |archive-date=11 April 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> The pair achieved a silver medal in the 10 m synchronized event at [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida|Fort Lauderdale]] on 8 May 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/swimming/8041334.stm |title=Daley and Brick land silver in US |work=[[BBC News]] |date=8 May 2009 |access-date=9 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514071804/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/swimming/8041334.stm |archive-date=14 May 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> Daley won the individual event in a new personal best of 554.90, scoring a perfect set of seven 10s for one of his dives.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A1-D9831CK81.html |title=British teen Daley wins gold in men's platform |website=Highbeam Research |date=9 May 2009 |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328190558/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A1-D9831CK81.html |archive-date=28 March 2015}}</ref> |
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In the 2009 FINA World Championships, held in Rome, Daley unexpectedly won the individual platform title despite his lower tariff, with a score of 539.85 points, when his opponents had poor final dives{{snd}}Qiu Bo finished on 532.20 points, Zhou Luxin on 530.55.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/diving/5880535/Diving-Tom-Daley-wins-Britains-first-ever-World-Championships-gold.html |title=Diving: Tom Daley wins Britain's first ever World Championships gold |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 July 2009 |access-date=21 July 2009 |location=London |first=Anita |last=Lonsbrough |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724143238/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/diving/5880535/Diving-Tom-Daley-wins-Britains-first-ever-World-Championships-gold.html |archive-date=24 July 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the 10 m platform synchronized event at the World Championships, Daley and Brick finished in 9th place following an inconsistent series of dives by the new pairing.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/8168753.stm |title=Daley and Brick struggle in final |work=[[BBC News]] |date=25 July 2009 |access-date=25 July 2009}}</ref> |
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===2010=== |
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In the February 2010 British Championships individual 10 m competition, Daley unveiled his 5255B dive (back two-and-a-half somersault, one-and-a-half twists, with pike) in competition for the first time, giving him a 3.6 tariff dive (reduced from 3.8 in FINAs' September 2009 DD tables<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fina.org/project/docs/rules/rules_dA2.pdf |title=FINA TABLE OF DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY |publisher=FINA |date=September 2009 |access-date=7 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913161738/http://www.fina.org/project/docs/rules/rules_dA2.pdf |archive-date=13 September 2015}}</ref>). In this competition Daley finished in second place, 40.05 points behind [[Peter Waterfield]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/8503052.stm |title=Peter Waterfield beats Tom Daley to National Cup title |work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 February 2010 |access-date=7 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/4993594.Southampton_s_Waterfield_beats_Daley_to_national_title/ |title=Southampton's Waterfield beats Daley to national title |work=Southern Daily Echo |date=7 February 2010 |access-date=7 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916110538/http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/4993594.Southampton_s_Waterfield_beats_Daley_to_national_title/ |archive-date=16 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In the March 2010 FINA Diving World Series event in [[Qingdao]] individual 10 m competition, Daley showcased his two new dives and finished in 4th place, 520.35 points (his best score of the year).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/diving/8591819.stm |title=Tom Daley takes World Series fourth with new dives |publisher=BBC |date=28 March 2010 |access-date=12 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415055112/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/diving/8591819.stm |archive-date=15 April 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In the first April 2010 FINA Diving World Series event held in [[Veracruz]], Mexico, Daley failed to qualify for the final round of the individual 10 m competition. A second event was held in the same venue three days later to replace the Sheffield DWS event which was cancelled because of the eruption of the Icelandic [[Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption|volcano Eyjafjallajökull]]. Daley finished in fourth place, with a score of 519.70 points{{snd}}his second highest score of the season (just 0.8 points away from bronze).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/apr/22/tom-daley-fina-world-series |title=Tom Daley misses out on medals at Fina World Series |work=The Guardian |date=22 April 2010 |access-date=4 May 2010 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715012652/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/apr/22/tom-daley-fina-world-series |archive-date=15 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In August 2010, Daley attended the [[2010 European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]] in [[Budapest]], Hungary, intending to defend his individual 10 m title. However, an injury to his triceps muscle in the 10 m synchro competition forced his withdrawal from the synchro and individual 10 m competitions, and placed his participation in the inaugural [[2010 Summer Youth Olympics|Youth Olympics]] in [[Singapore]] in the following two weeks in doubt.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/diving/1412077-budapest-2010-injury-forces-daley-withdraw-yog-participation-doubt |title=BUDAPEST 2010: Injury forces Daley to withdraw – YOG participation in doubt |publisher=morethanthegames |date=14 August 2010 |access-date=17 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815053150/http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/diving/1412077-budapest-2010-injury-forces-daley-withdraw-yog-participation-doubt |archive-date=15 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/aug/14/tom-daley-european-championships |title=Injury forces diver Tom Daley out of European Championships |work=The Guardian |date=14 August 2010 |access-date=17 August 2010 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216025007/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/aug/14/tom-daley-european-championships |archive-date=16 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was later announced that Daley would dive in the 3 m springboard but not in the 10 m platform.<ref name="youth olympics">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/8914366.stm |title=Tom Daley will dive 3m at the Youth Olympics |work=BBC Sport |access-date=20 August 2010 |date=20 August 2010}}</ref> Daley took part in the 3 m springboard diving competition and finished in 9th place. |
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On 12 October 2010, Daley attended the [[2010 Commonwealth Games]] in New Delhi, India. He and his teammate [[Max Brick]] won the gold medal for Synchronized 10 m Platform Competition.<ref>{{Cite web|date=12 October 2010|title=Tom Daley and Max Brick win diving gold at 2010 Commonwealth Games|url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/oct/12/tom-daley-diving-gold-commonwealth-games|access-date=30 September 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> The following day he also won gold in the 10 m Individual Platform competition. |
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In November 2010, Daley was announced as a nominated sportsman for the [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year]] 2010 and the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010.<ref name="spoty2010">{{cite news |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-shortlisted-for-double-bbc-honours/7090/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415223559/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-shortlisted-for-double-bbc-honours/7090/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=Tom Daley shortlisted for double BBC honours |publisher=British Swimming |date=30 November 2010 |access-date=30 November 2010}}</ref> He won BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010 for the third time in his career,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Daley recalls BBC award success|language=en-GB|work=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/sports-personality/15622134|access-date=30 September 2021}}</ref> and is the first person to receive this award three times. |
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===2011=== |
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For the 2011 season, Daley was paired in the synchronized competitions with [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens Olympic]] silver medallist [[Peter Waterfield]] in British Swimming's continuing efforts to find the best synchro pairing for the 2012 Olympics.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/diving/0413535-brick-hopeful-knows-three-two-will-not-go |title=Brick hopeful, but knows three into two will not go |publisher=Sportsbeat |date=4 January 2011 |access-date=29 January 2011 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107055049/http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/diving/0413535-brick-hopeful-knows-three-two-will-not-go |archive-date=7 January 2011}}</ref> At the 2011 National Cup, the British Championship was held in the new [[Southend Leisure & Tennis Centre|Southend Swimming and Diving Centre]] on 28–30 January and Daley came second in the 3m springboard competition behind Jack Laugher. With Waterfield, he won the 10 m platform synchronized competition.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/9366988.stm |title=Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield win National Cup gold |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=29 January 2011 |access-date=29 January 2011 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110120052158/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/diving/9366988.stm |archive-date=20 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> The following day, Waterfield beat Daley to the individual 10 m platform title for the second successive year, by 494.25 points to 472.35, with Max Brick third with 399.80.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/9381637.stm |title=Peter Waterfield beats Tom Daley to win British title |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=30 January 2011 |access-date=30 January 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710202514/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/9381637.stm |archive-date=10 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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In the [[Diving at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships|2011 World Championships]], held in Shanghai, China, he was again paired with Waterfield in the 10 m synchro event. In the week before the competition, Waterfield was struck by a flu-like illness for five days, and consequently they finished in sixth place.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.omegatiming.com/diving/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/F73F_DetResSynchro_103_Final_10m_synchro_platform_men.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812184432/http://www.omegatiming.com/diving/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/F73F_DetResSynchro_103_Final_10m_synchro_platform_men.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 August 2011 |title=14th FINA World Championships, Shanghai, China 16–31 July 2011 Detailed Results – Mens 10m Synchro Platform |date=17 July 2011 |publisher=FINA |access-date=24 July 2011}}</ref> In the individual event, Daley finished in fifth place on 505.10 points, behind [[Qiu Bo]] (585.45), [[David Boudia]] (544.25), [[Sascha Klein]] (534.50), and [[Viktor Minibaev]] (527.50).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fina.org/competitions/517/14th-fina-world-championships-2011/results?disciplines=&event=2440e9f8-3ae7-4d4c-a096-a1bf1ccc41be |title=14th FINA World Championships, Shanghai, China 16–31 July 2011 Detailed Results – Men 10m Platform |date=24 July 2011 |publisher=FINA |access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref> |
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On 27 July 2011, Daley took the first dive in London's newly built Olympic Park Aquatics Centre marking the one-year countdown until the [[2012 Summer Olympics|games begin]]. It was broadcast live on BBC One and when interviewed he said "Marking the one year to go, by diving in the Aquatics Centre is an incredible honour. Only a few years ago, this was a distant dream. The fact that I qualified at the weekend and am taking the first dive is a complete privilege. I can't wait for next year and the honour of representing Team GB."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/radio/radio1/newsbeat/story14290323.shtml |title=Events mark one year to Olympics |date=27 July 2011 |website=BBC |access-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925080009/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/radio/radio1/newsbeat/story14290323.shtml |archive-date=25 September 2015}}</ref> |
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===2012=== |
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In the 2012 season, a thumb injury forced Daley's withdrawal from the National Cup a few days before the competition (the 10m platform title was won by Max Brick). In February 2012, British Diving's Performance Director Alexei Evangulov criticised Daley's work ethic, stating that he feared Daley's media and commercial activities were to the detriment of his training for the Olympics{{snd}}a comment which was seemingly backed up when Daley and Pete Waterfield could only finish 7th in the 10 m synchro competition in the FINA World Cup event held at the [[London Aquatics Centre]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9102464/London-2012-Olympics-Tom-Daley-reminds-me-of-Anna-Kournikova-says-Russian-coach-Alexei-Evangulov.html |title=London 2012 Olympics: Tom Daley reminds me of Anna Kournikova says Russian coach Alexei Evangulov |last1=Chadband |first1=Ian |last2=Hart |first2=Simon |date=24 February 2012 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=18 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303164006/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9102464/London-2012-Olympics-Tom-Daley-reminds-me-of-Anna-Kournikova-says-Russian-coach-Alexei-Evangulov.html |archive-date=3 March 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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Following a clear-the-air meeting between Daley, Evangulov, and Daley's representatives, Daley participated in the 2012 FINA Diving World Series. In the first event held in [[Dubai]], Daley and Waterfield finished 4th in the 10 m synchro event, while Daley won silver in the individual 10 m event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2787:dws-2012-dubai-chinese-reign-supreme-taking-all-8-golds&catid=47:diving-world-series&Itemid=291 |title=DWS 2012, Dubai: Chinese reign supreme taking all 8 golds |work=FINA/Midea Diving World Series |publisher=FINA |date=17 March 2012 |access-date=18 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324075807/http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2787%3Adws-2012-dubai-chinese-reign-supreme-taking-all-8-golds&catid=47%3Adiving-world-series&Itemid=291 |archive-date=24 March 2012}}</ref> In the event held in Beijing a week later, Daley and Waterfield won the silver medal in the 10 m synchro event, while in the individual event Daley won silver and Waterfield the bronze.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-and-waterfield-claim-10m-platform-medals/13001/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918141705/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-and-waterfield-claim-10m-platform-medals/13001/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 September 2012 |title=Daley and Waterfield claim 10m Platform medals |author=British Swimming |date=24 March 2012 |work=Swimming.org |publisher=British Swimming and the Amateur Swimming Association |access-date=24 March 2012}}</ref> Three weeks later, in the Moscow event, Daley won silver in the individual platform event, while the pairing finished fifth in the synchro.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr/14/tom-daley-world-series-silver |title=Tom Daley Returns to from to take World Series Silver in Moscow |date=14 April 2012 |website=The Guardian |access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref> In the final DWS meet of the year, in [[Tijuana]], Mexico, Daley won gold in the individual platform event, and the pairing with Waterfield won bronze in the synchro event, although the Chinese did not compete in these events at this meet.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr/22/tom-daley-world-series-gold?newsfeed=true |title=Tom Daley caps off World Series with gold in 10-metre platform |agency=Press Association |date=22 April 2012 |work=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News & Media Ltd |access-date=22 April 2012 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103011144/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr/22/tom-daley-world-series-gold?newsfeed=true |archive-date=3 November 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> Over the whole 2012 Diving World Series, Daley and the Daley/Waterfield pairing won both the overall individual and synchro 10-metre competitions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-stars-across-fina-diving-world-series/13334/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415220505/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-stars-across-fina-diving-world-series/13334/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=Daley stars across FINA Diving World Series |date=22 April 2012 |work=swimming.org |publisher=British Swimming |access-date=22 April 2012}}</ref> |
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In April 2012, Daley won the British elite juniors 10-metre platform title by a margin of 140 points at the [[Plymouth Life Centre]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Daley-wins-British-junior-championship-gold-Life/story-15736761-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120915044046/http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Daley-wins-British-junior-championship-gold-Life/story-15736761-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 September 2012 |title=Daley wins British junior championship gold at Life Centre |date=6 April 2012 |work=thisisdevon.co.uk |publisher=Western Morning News |access-date=14 April 2012}}</ref> |
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In May 2012, Daley regained the European 10-metre platform title when he won gold at the [[2012 European Aquatics Championships|Eindhoven]] championships with a score of 565.05 points, 49.65 ahead of [[Viktor Minibaev]] in silver position.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/may/20/tom-daley-european-diving-title |title=Tom Daley regains European diving title in last event before Olympics |date=20 May 2012 |work=The Guardian |access-date=20 May 2012 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103010836/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/may/20/tom-daley-european-diving-title |archive-date=3 November 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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In the [[British Gas]] [[British Swimming (organisation)|Diving Championships]] held in Sheffield in June 2012, which were also the Olympic trials, Daley and Waterfield won the 10 m synchro platform title with a new British record score of 475.77, more than 140 points ahead of silver medallists Daniel Goodfellow and Ross Haslam on 333.72.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/record-for-daley-and-waterfield-on-opening-day-of-trials/13875/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416030527/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/record-for-daley-and-waterfield-on-opening-day-of-trials/13875/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 April 2013 |title=Record for Daley and Waterfield on opening day of Trials |date=8 June 2012 |work=swimming.org |publisher=British Swimming and the Amateur Swimming Association |access-date=8 June 2012}}</ref> In the individual 10 m championship, Daley regained the title for the first time since 2009 with a score of 547.60, ahead of Peter Waterfield on 452.80 and James Denny on 390.20.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-takes-step-towards-games-with-second-gold/13891/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415215642/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-takes-step-towards-games-with-second-gold/13891/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=Daley takes step towards Games with second gold |date=10 June 2012 |work=swimming.org |publisher=British Swimming and the Amateur Swimming Association |access-date=10 June 2012}}</ref> |
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====Olympics==== |
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[[File:Tom Daley at the Olympic Victory Parade.JPG|right|thumb|Daley holding his individual [[Olympic medal|Olympic bronze medal]] at the [[Our Greatest Team Parade|Olympic Victory Parade]], September 2012]] |
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In Britain, Daley had long been considered one of the "poster boys" of the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], (literally{{snd}}an 80-foot tall banner depicting him adorned the [[John Lewis (department store)|John Lewis]] department store in [[Cardiff]], while a 40-foot tall banner of his female equivalent, [[Heptathlon|heptathlete]] [[Jessica Ennis]], was on the [[Sheffield]] branch of the store chain.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.retail-week.com/newsletter/5038941.article?referrer=e19 |title=In pictures: John Lewis 'wraps' its stores in giant Olympic banners |author=Nicola Harrison |date=23 July 2012 |work=Retail Week |access-date=16 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102212006/http://www.retail-week.com/newsletter/5038941.article?referrer=e19 |archive-date=2 November 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>) |
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It was hoped that the [[Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m men's synchronized platform]] event, on the first Monday of the Games, would provide Daley and Waterfield with an opportunity to supply [[Great Britain at the Olympics|Team GB]]'s first medal of the Games. However, while the pairing was leading the competition after three dives, a poor reverse 3 1/2 somersaults with tuck in the fourth round put them out of contention and they ended the competition in fourth place on 454.65 points, behind the Chinese pairing of [[Cao Yuan]] and [[Zhang Yanquan]] on 486.78 points, the Mexican pairing of [[Iván García (diver)|Iván García]] and [[Germán Sánchez (diver)|Germán Sánchez]] on 468.90 points, and the US pairing of [[David Boudia]] and [[Nick McCrory]] on 463.47 points.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://olympics.time.com/2012/07/30/the-daley-show-britains-diving-pair-daley-and-waterfield-fail-to-medal/ |title=The Daley Show: Britain's Diving Pair Daley and Waterfield Fail to Medal |author=Glen Levy |date=30 July 2012 |magazine=Time |access-date=16 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816064517/http://olympics.time.com/2012/07/30/the-daley-show-britains-diving-pair-daley-and-waterfield-fail-to-medal/ |archive-date=16 August 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Following this disappointment, there was controversy when Daley was the subject of some abusive [[Twitter]] messages, which resulted in the police arresting a 17-year-old boy in Weymouth, Dorset, and a 28-year-old professional footballer for publishing offensive messages.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19095923 |title=Tom Daley tweet: Footballer Daniel Thomas arrested |date=2 August 2012 |work=BBC News – Wales |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819012732/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19095923 |archive-date=19 August 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Returning to the [[London Aquatics Centre|Aquatics Centre]] on the final Friday of the Games for the [[Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|10 m men's platform]] event, Daley initially gave his fans cause for concern with a poor performance in the preliminary round where he was ranked 15th of the 18 qualifying divers for the semi-final with 448.45 points (the eventual gold medal winner, David Boudia, ranked 18th). A much better performance in the semi-finals the next morning left Daley in fourth position on 521.10 points, behind [[Qiu Bo]] on 563.55, [[Lin Yue]] on 541.80, and Boudia on 531.15. The final round began in dramatic form when Daley's star status almost led to his undoing{{snd}}a large number of camera flashes while he was diving distracted him and he only scored 75 points; a protest to the referee resulted in him being allowed to retake the dive, when he scored 91.80. By the beginning of the final round of dives in an enthralling contest, Daley was in the lead over Qiu Bo and David Boudia by 0.15 points, but Daley's final dive had a [[degree of difficulty]] of only 3.3 while his rivals both had 3.6 dives, and Daley won the bronze medal with 556.95 points while Boudia won gold with 568.65 points and Qiu Bo won silver with 566.85 points.<ref name="2012_Olympics">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/9469693/Tom-Daley-dives-to-bronze-as-USA-take-10m-platform-gold.html |title=Tom Daley wins Olympic diving bronze as USA's David Boudia takes 10m platform gold |author=Duncan White |date=12 August 2012 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=16 August 2012 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814164404/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/9469693/Tom-Daley-dives-to-bronze-as-USA-take-10m-platform-gold.html |archive-date=14 August 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/11/tom-daley-olympic-diving-live?newsfeed=true |title=Olympic diving: Tom Daley wins bronze |author=Barry Glendenning |date=11 August 2012 |work=The Guardian |access-date=16 August 2012 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017085345/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/11/tom-daley-olympic-diving-live?newsfeed=true |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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====World Junior Diving Championships==== |
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At the 19th FINA World Junior Diving Championships, held in October 2012 in Adelaide, Australia, Daley led a strong British team and rather unexpectedly won the Boys "A" 3 m synchronized springboard competition together with [[Jack Laugher]], who had won the individual 3 m competition, they had had little practice together. Daley and Laugher scored 338.85 points, over 30 points ahead of Ilia Kuzmin and Maxim Popkov.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/19883622 |title=Tom Daley and Jack Laugher dive to World Junior gold |author=Nick Hope |date=9 October 2012 |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012011323/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/19883622 |archive-date=12 October 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In the 10m individual platform event, Daley won the competition with a score of 663.95, ahead of [[Yang Jian (diver)|Yang Jian]] on 611.95 and [[Chen Aisen]] on 597.20, scoring five 10's and two 9.5's on his fifth dive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-racks-up-the-tens-for-world-junior-gold/15236/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415220125/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-racks-up-the-tens-for-world-junior-gold/15236/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=Daley racks up the tens for world junior gold |date=13 October 2012 |work=British Swimming |access-date=13 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/19935916 |title=Tom Daley wins second World Junior gold in Australia |date=13 October 2012 |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014192225/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/19935916 |archive-date=14 October 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===2013=== |
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In January 2013, Daley was involved in the ITV celebrity diving show ''[[Splash! (British TV series)|Splash!]]'', where he was an expert adviser to the celebrity contestants.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20159384 |title=Newsbeat – Olympic star Tom Daley launches celebrity diving show |publisher=BBC |date=31 October 2012 |access-date=8 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124054004/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20159384 |archive-date=24 November 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> While the show got a largely negative critical response, it nevertheless got the largest ratings on each of the five Saturday nights it was broadcast, and was renewed for a second season in 2014. Daley was warned by [[British Swimming]] chief executive David Sparkes that taking part in the series would risk damaging his chances of winning an Olympic gold medal in the future.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/diving-tom-daley-urged-to-avoid-distractions-after-taking-part-in-reality-show-8442876.html |title=Diving: Tom Daley urged to avoid distractions after taking part in reality show |date=8 January 2013 |work=The Independent |access-date=4 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501163721/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/diving-tom-daley-urged-to-avoid-distractions-after-taking-part-in-reality-show-8442876.html |archive-date=1 May 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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At the British Gas Diving Championships held at his home pool in Plymouth on 8–10 February, Daley only competed in the individual 10-metre platform event, which he won with 501.00 points, ahead of [[James Denny (diver)|James Denny]] on 374.90 points and [[Daniel Goodfellow]] on 340.25 points. Daley did not compete in the 10 m synchro platform event, as his partner Peter Waterfield had lost his funding following this Olympiad, and his future synchro partner had yet to be determined. |
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Daley's participation in competitive diving in 2013 was seriously restricted by an injury in May. In April he won the 10 m competition at the [[Edinburgh]] leg of the Diving World Series, but while subsequently training for the Diving Grand Prix event at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Daley injured his elbow and was forced to withdraw from the Fort Lauderdale competition and the subsequent DWS event in Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/22238361 |title=Tom Daley wins 10m platform at World Series in Edinburgh |date=21 April 2013 |work=BBC Sport |access-date=19 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424114553/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/22238361 |archive-date=24 April 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-withdraws-from-mexico/17152/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130705020709/http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/news/diving/daley-withdraws-from-mexico/17152/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 July 2013 |title=Daley withdraws from Mexico |date=19 May 2013 |website=swimming.org |publisher=British Swimming |access-date=19 May 2013}}</ref> In training for the 2013 World Championships, in Barcelona, Daley suffered a torn triceps for the third time, and only competed following intense medical attention and painkilling injections; he finished the individual 10 m competition in 6th place. |
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===2014=== |
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At the beginning of 2014, Daley moved his training base from the [[Plymouth Life Centre|Life Centre]] in [[Plymouth]] to the [[London Aquatics Centre]] at the Olympic Park in east London, with a new coach, [[Jane Figueiredo]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jan/22/tom-daley-dark-place-olympic-gold-diver |title=Tom Daley emerges from dark place upbeat and aiming for Olympic gold |first=Anna |last=Kessel |newspaper=The Guardian |date=22 January 2014 |via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> |
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In January 2014 Daley was involved in the second series of ''[[Splash! (British TV series)|Splash!]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=6 January 2014|title=Tom Daley makes fewer waves as Splash return watched by 4.9 million|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/06/tom-daley-splash-itv|access-date=30 September 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> Ratings were not as good as the first season, and the show was cancelled. |
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In the FINA Diving World Series, Daley came third in the 10m platform competition at the Beijing round, scoring 525.05 points, behind China's [[Cao Yuan]] on 579.45 and Qiu Bo on 534.05 points.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Tonia-Couch-Tom-Daley-win-World-Series-medals/story-20816795-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317004541/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Tonia-Couch-Tom-Daley-win-World-Series-medals/story-20816795-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 March 2014 |title=Tonia Couch and Tom Daley win World Series medals in China |date=16 March 2014 |work=Plymouth Herald |access-date=16 March 2014}}</ref> |
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In 2014, Daley hosted a six-part travel series for [[ITV2]] called ''[[Tom Daley Goes Global]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 April 2014|title=Tom Daley going backpacking is a poor excuse for a TV show|url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/apr/11/tom-daley-goes-global-weekend-escapes-warwick-davis|access-date=30 September 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> |
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At the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]] in Glasgow, Daley won a silver medal in the men's synchronized 10 m platform with diving partner James Denny and gold in the men's 10 m platform, with 516.55 points, retaining his title from the [[2010 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games in Delhi]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/diving/1022905/tom_daley.html |title=Commonwealth Games 2014 Profile 'Tom Daley' |access-date=3 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810122412/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/diving/1022905/tom_daley.html |archive-date=10 August 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In August 2014 at the [[2014 European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]] in Berlin, the Daley/Denny partnership finished fourth in the [[Diving at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m synchro platform|10 m platform synchro]] competition, in only their second competition,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/28871758 |title=Tom Daley and James Denny miss out on European diving medal |work=BBC Sport |date=20 August 2014 |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822224107/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/28871758 |archive-date=22 August 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> while Daley won the silver medal in the [[Diving at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform|10 m platform]] competition, with 535.45 points, behind Russia's [[Viktor Minibaev]] who had 586.10 points.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/28911713 |title=European Championships 2014: Tom Daley wins diving silver |work=BBC Sport |date=23 August 2014 |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825222217/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/28911713 |archive-date=25 August 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===2015=== |
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For the 2015 season, Daley dropped the "demon dive" (backward 2.5 somersault with 2.5 twists, piked) which he had experienced difficulty with for several years, and replaced it with a forward 3.5 somersaults with one twist, which he called his "firework" dive and displayed for the first time at the British championships in Plymouth in February.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/30970863 |title=Tom Daley replaces 'demon dive' with 'risky firework' routine |work=BBC Sport |date=25 January 2015 |access-date=22 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225080158/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/30970863 |archive-date=25 February 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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At the British championships held in his old home pool in Plymouth, Daley won the individual 10 m platform title for the fifth time, with 493.70 points, ahead of 14-year-old [[Matthew Dixon (diver)|Matthew Dixon]] on 427.15, and [[Matty Lee]] on 413.20.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/British-Diving-gold-Tom-Daley-firework-fizzles/story-26065617-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222212744/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/British-Diving-gold-Tom-Daley-firework-fizzles/story-26065617-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 February 2015 |title=British Diving gold for Tom Daley, but 'firework' fizzles out |work=Plymouth Herald |date=22 February 2015 |access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> |
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In the season's opening meet of the [[2015 FINA Diving World Series|FINA Diving World Series]], in Beijing, Daley conceded that the new dive still needed "work to be done" on it, as he failed to qualify for the final round.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/31895653 |title=Tom Daley fails to qualify in China with new 'firework' diving routine |work=BBC Sport |date=15 March 2015 |access-date=16 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317230028/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/31895653 |archive-date=17 March 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Overall, throughout the years' DWS meets, in the 10 m platform competition Daley won the silver medal in the [[Dubai]], [[Windsor, Ontario]], and [[Mérida, Mexico]] legs, and gold in London, whilst with [[Alicia Blagg]] he won bronze in the mixed synchronized 3m springboard at Windsor and at Mérida. |
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At the [[2015 World Aquatics Championships|World Championships]] held in [[Kazan]], Russia, Daley won the gold medal with [[Rebecca Gallantree]] in the inaugural [[Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Team event|team event]] competition (Daley diving twice from the 10 m platform and once from the 3 m springboard, Gallantree diving once from the platform and twice from the springboard).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/33712555 |title=World Aquatics: Tom Daley & Rebecca Gallantree win gold |work=BBC Sport |date=29 July 2015 |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731022223/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/33712555 |archive-date=31 July 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 in ninth place after the second round.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/33753985 |title=Tom Daley wins second medal at World Championships |work=BBC Sport |date=2 August 2015 |access-date=2 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805000507/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/33753985 |archive-date=5 August 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===2016=== |
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For the 2016 season, Daley was paired with [[Daniel Goodfellow]] for the 10 m men's platform synchro competition, with a view to competing in the [[2016 Summer Olympic Games|2016 Rio Summer Olympics]] in this sport. |
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At the British National Diving Cup, the British Championships, held in January, Daley won a gold in the individual 10 m platform competition with 545.80 points, ahead of Matty Lee on 461.00 and Dan Goodfellow on 419.35 points.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sport.bt.com/more-sport-hub/more-sport/tom-daley-admits-im-in-great-shape-after-winning-gold-in-southend-S11364035680427 |title=Tom Daley admits 'I'm in great shape' after winning gold in Southend |publisher=BT Sport |date=24 January 2016 |access-date=31 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222154735/http://sport.bt.com/more-sport-hub/more-sport/tom-daley-admits-im-in-great-shape-after-winning-gold-in-southend-S11364035680427 |archive-date=22 February 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the synchronized 10 m platform competition, Daley and Goodfellow won the competition, but they were the only entrants in the competition after Lee and [[James Denny (diver)|James Denny]] withdrew following a power cut at the venue.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/35393652 |title=Tom Daley & Dan Goodfellow: Olympic hopefuls 'can do better' |work=BBC Sport |date=23 January 2016 |access-date=31 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127111531/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/35393652 |archive-date=27 January 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Daley and Goodfellow got bronze at the [[2016 FINA Diving World Cup]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fina.org/competition/21681/889 |title=FINA Diving World Cup 2016 Rio de Janeiro (BRA) – Men Synchronized 10m |publisher=[[FINA]] |access-date=4 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423023216/http://fina.org/competition/21681/889 |archive-date=23 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> earning them a spot in the [[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro competition at the Olympic Games]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fina.org/sites/default/files/2015-10_-_rio_2016_-_qualification_system_-_final_-_diving_-_en.pdf |title=Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Diving |publisher=[[FINA]] |access-date=11 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816042944/http://fina.org/sites/default/files/2015-10_-_rio_2016_-_qualification_system_-_final_-_diving_-_en.pdf |archive-date=16 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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At the [[2016 FINA Diving World Series]], which consisted of four competitions, Daley earned six medals. In the synchro event, he and Goodfellow medalled at each of the four competitions, earning two silver and two bronze medals. In the individual event, Daley earned a silver and a bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fina.org/event/fina-nvc-diving-world-series-2016/results |title=FINA/NVC Diving World Series 2016 |publisher=[[FINA]] |access-date=4 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422172220/http://fina.org/event/fina-nvc-diving-world-series-2016/results |archive-date=22 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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At the [[2016 Summer Olympics]], Daley and Goodfellow won a bronze medal in the [[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|synchronized 10 m platform]]. In the [[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|individual 10 m platform]], Daley placed first in the preliminaries (with an Olympic record score of 571.85 points, which was later broken by Chen Aisen in the finals). However, he had difficulties the next day, placing 18th in the semi-finals and failing to qualify for the finals. |
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===2017=== |
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In the [[2017 FINA Diving World Series|2017 FINA World Series]], Daley took home 1 bronze medal in Beijing (10 m Platform), 3 bronze medals in Kazan (10 m Platform, 10 m Synchro, and 3 m Mixed), and one silver medal in Guangzhou (10 m Platform). On 22 July 2017, he won the gold medal in the 10 m platform event at the FINA World Championships held in Budapest. |
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===2018–2019=== |
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In the [[2018 FINA Diving World Series]], Daley won 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal in Beijing (3 m Mixed and 10 m Synchro), 1 silver medal in Fuji (3 m Mixed), 1 silver medal in Montreal (3 m Mixed), and 1 silver medal in Kazan (3 m Mixed). |
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At the [[Diving at the 2018 Commonwealth Games|2018 Commonwealth Games]] held at the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]], [[Australia]], Daley and Goodfellow won gold on the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/commonwealth-games-2018-tom-daley-gold-medal-diving-result-a8302321.html |title=Tom Daley wins gold and calls on 37 Commonwealth countries to decriminalise homosexuality |date=13 April 2018 |first=Matt |last=McGeehan |work=The Independent |access-date=13 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414013652/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/commonwealth-games-2018-tom-daley-gold-medal-diving-result-a8302321.html |archive-date=14 April 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Daley partnered with Matty Lee starting in October 2018 in the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/45934960 |title=Tom Daley & Jack Laugher change diving partners ahead of Tokyo 2020 |first=Nick |last=Hope |work=BBC Sport |date=22 October 2018}}</ref> At the [[2019 World Aquatics Championships]] held in [[Gwangju]], South Korea, Daley and Lee finished in the bronze position in the [[Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|10 m synchro]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/48994687 |title=World Aquatics Championships: Tom Daley and Matty Lee win bronze to claim Olympic spot |first=Nick |last=Hope |date=15 July 2019 |work=BBC Sport}}</ref> |
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===2021=== |
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At the [[2021 FINA Diving World Cup]], which was held in Japan as an official test event for the [[2020 Tokyo Olympics]],{{Efn|postponed to 2021 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]}} Daley won his first World Cup gold with Matty Lee in synchronized 10 m platform.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/56956908 |title=Fina World Cup: Tom Daley and Matty Lee win gold in Japan |first=Nick |last=Hope |work=BBC Sport |date=1 May 2021}}</ref> He also won gold in the individual 10 m platform.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fina.org/competitions/11/fina-diving-world-cup-2021/results|title=Competition Results | FINA Official|website=FINA – Fédération Internationale De Natation}}</ref> At the [[2020 European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]] held in [[Budapest]], Daley and Lee also won gold in [[Diving at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m synchro platform|synchronized 10 m platform]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/57130595 |title=European Diving Championships: Tom Daley and Matthew Lee win synchronized 10m gold |first=Nick |last=Hope |work=BBC Sport |date=15 May 2021}}</ref> and a silver in the [[Diving at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform|individual 10 m platform]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/57138402 |title=Tom Daley: British diver wins silver at the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest |first=Nick |last=Hope |date=16 May 2021 |work=BBC Sport}}</ref> |
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On 26 July, Daley and Lee won the [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Olympic]] gold medal in the [[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|Men's synchronized 10 m platform diving]] event.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57966599|title=Tokyo Olympics: Tom Daley and Matty Lee win gold in men's synchronized 10m platform |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=26 July 2021 |access-date=26 July 2021}}</ref> |
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On 7 August, Tom Daley qualified for the final of Men's individual 10 m platform diving, improving on his performance in the individual event at Rio 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Daley hits back at Russian TV portrayal as a 'British Homosexual' after Winning Diving Bronze |last=Brown |first=Oliver |date=7 August 2021 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/07/diving-tokyo-olympics-2020-live-tom-daley-gb-final/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/07/diving-tokyo-olympics-2020-live-tom-daley-gb-final/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Telegraph |access-date=16 August 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He went on to win bronze in the final.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diving Schedule & Results – 7 Aug |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/diving/olympic-schedule-and-results-date=2021-08-07.htm |access-date=16 August 2021 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=[[Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games]] |language=en-us |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816185511/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/diving/olympic-schedule-and-results-date=2021-08-07.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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===2024=== |
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Daley was selected to take part in the 10 metre platform synchronised event at the [[2024 Summer Olympics]] in Paris with [[Noah Williams (diver)|Noah Williams]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/articles/c6pylyyl13go|title=Daley confirmed for fifth Olympics in Paris|date=6 May 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=24 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/07/diving-tom-daley-compete-record-fifth-olympics-to-defend-10m-synchro-title|title=Tom Daley to compete at record fifth Olympics to defend 10m synchro title|work=The Guardian|date=6 May 2024 |accessdate=24 July 2024 |last1=Ingle |first1=Sean }}</ref> the pair went on to win the silver medal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-29 |title=Tom Daley wins fifth Olympic medal alongside Noah Williams with silver in Paris |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c4ngkgq10vxo |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was also chosen to be one of [[Team GB|Team GB's]] flag-bearers at the opening ceremony alongside rower [[Helen Glover]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c51y8dw1wnvo|title=Daley and Glover GB flagbearers at opening ceremony|date=24 July 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=24 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/40629240/olympics-2024-tom-daley-helen-glover-carry-team-gb-flags|title=Olympics 2024: Tom Daley, Helen Glover to carry Team GB flags|date=24 July 2024 |publisher=ESPN|accessdate=24 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skysports.com/olympics/news/15234/13183758/paris-2024-tom-daley-and-helen-glover-announced-as-opening-ceremony-flagbearers-for-team-gb|title=Paris 2024: Tom Daley and Helen Glover announced as Opening Ceremony flagbearers for Team GB|publisher=Sky Sports|accessdate=24 July 2024}}</ref> The day after the closing ceremony, Daley announced his official retirement from diving.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Remsen |first=Nick |date=2024-08-12 |title="It Feels Like The Right Time": Tom Daley – Britain's Most Decorated Diver – Confirms His Retirement |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tom-daley-retires |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=British Vogue |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2024-08-12 |title=Tom Daley announces retirement from diving |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/ce31n00z631o |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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==Competitive history== |
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| [[European LC Championships 2008|European LC Championships]], 10m || || || bgcolor="gold" | 1st |
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| '''[[Diving at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]''', 10 m || colspan=3| || [[Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|7th]] || colspan=3| || style="background:#a85400;" | [[Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|3rd]] || colspan=3| || [[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|18th<sup>**</sup>]] || colspan=3| || style="background:#a85400;" | [[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform|3rd]] || |
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| Olympic Games, 10 m (synchro) || colspan=3| || [[Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|8th<sup>†</sup>]] || colspan=3| || [[Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|4th<sup>@</sup>]] || colspan=3| || style="background:#a85400;" |[[Diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|3rd<sup>=</sup>]] || colspan=3| || style="background:gold;" | [[Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|1st<sup>£</sup>]] ||style="background:silver;" | [[Diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|2nd<sup>#</sup>]] |
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| '''[[FINA World Aquatics Championships|FINA World Championships]]''', 10 m || colspan="4" | || style="background:gold;" | [[Diving at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|1st]]|| || [[Diving at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|5th]]|| || [[Diving at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|6th]]|| || style="background:#a85400;" | [[Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|3rd]]|| || style="background:gold;" | [[Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|1st]] || || [[Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 metre platform|7th]] || colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Sheffield, 10m (synchro) || || || bgcolor="gold" | 1st<sup>†</sup> |
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| Commonwealth Games, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="5" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>§</sup>|| colspan="3" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd<sup>%</sup>|| colspan="3" | || style="background:gold;" | [[Diving at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform|1st<sup>=</sup>]] || colspan="3" | |
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| '''[[FINA Diving World Series]]''', Windsor, Ontario, Canada 10 m || colspan="10" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd || colspan="5" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada mixed 3 m springboard || colspan="10" | || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd<sup>*</sup>|| style="background:silver;" | 2nd<sup>=</sup>|| colspan="5" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada mixed 3 m springboard || colspan="13" | || style="background:silver;" | [[2018 FINA Diving World Series#Event 3: Montreal|2nd<sup>♠</sup>]]|| style="background:silver;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 3: Montreal|2nd<sup>♠</sup>]]|| colspan="2" | |
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|FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m |
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| colspan="14" | || style="background:gold;" | [[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 3: Montreal|1st]] || colspan="2" | |
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|FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m synchro |
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| colspan="14" | || style="background:silver;" | [[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 3: Montreal|2nd<sup>£</sup>]] || colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Changzhou, China, 10 m || colspan="4" | || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd || colspan="12" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Nanjing, China, 10 m || colspan="3" | || 4th || colspan="13" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Qingdao, China, 10 m || colspan="5" | || 4th || colspan="11" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m || colspan="6" | || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd<sup>@</sup>|| style="background:silver;" | 2nd || || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd || || 4th || colspan="2" | || 4th || colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="7" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd<sup>@</sup>|| colspan="3" | || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd<sup>=</sup> || || style="background:#a85400;" | [[2018 FINA Diving World Series#Event 1: Beijing|3rd<sup>=</sup>]] || colspan="3" | |
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|FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 3 m mixed synchro |
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| colspan="13" | || style="background:silver;" | [[2018 FINA Diving World Series#Event 1: Beijing|2nd<sup>♠</sup>]] || style="background:#a85400;" | [[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 2: Beijing|3rd<sup>♠</sup>]] || colspan="2" | |
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|FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m |
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| colspan="14" | || style="background:silver;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 1: Sagamirhara|2nd]] || colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="14" | || 4th<sup>£</sup>|| colspan="2" | |
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|FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 3 m mixed synchro |
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| colspan="14" | || style="background:#a85400;" | [[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 1: Sagamirhara|3rd<sup>♠</sup>]] || colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Fuji, Japan, mixed 3 m springboard || colspan="13" | || style="background:silver;" |[[2018 FINA Diving World Series#Event 2: Fuji|2nd<sup>♠</sup>]]|| colspan="3" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m || colspan="3" | || 5th || colspan="3" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="9" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="3" | || 5th<sup>†</sup>|| colspan="3" | || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd<sup>@</sup>|| colspan="9" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Veracruz, Mexico, 10 m || colspan="5" | || 4th || colspan="11" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 m || colspan="6" | || style="background:silver;" | [[2011 FINA Diving World Series#Guanajauto leg|2nd]]|| colspan="10" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="6" | || 4th<sup>@</sup>|| colspan="10" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Mérida, Mexico 10 m || colspan="10" | || style="background:silver;" |[[2015 FINA Diving World Series|2nd]]|| colspan="6" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Mérida, Mexico mixed 3 m springboard || colspan="10" | || style="background:#a85400;" |[[2015 FINA Diving World Series|3rd<sup>*</sup>]]|| colspan="6" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Doha, Qatar, 10 m || colspan="4" | || 6th || colspan="12" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Russia, 10 m || colspan="6" | || 5th || style="background:silver;" |[[2012 FINA Diving World Series|2nd]]|| colspan="9" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Russia, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="7" | || 5th<sup>@</sup>|| colspan="9" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m || colspan="11" | || style="background:silver;" |[[2016 FINA Diving World Series|2nd]]|| colspan="2" | || style="background:#a85400;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 4: Kazan|3rd]]|| colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="11" | || style="background:#a85400;" |[[2016 FINA Diving World Series|3rd<sup>=</sup>]]|| style="background:#a85400; " |[[2017 FINA Diving World Series|3rd<sup>=</sup>]]|| || style="background:#a85400;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 4: Kazan|3rd<sup>£</sup>]]|| colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, mixed 3 m springboard || colspan="13" | || style="background:silver;" |[[2018 FINA Diving World Series#Event 4: Kazan|2nd<sup>♠</sup>]]|| style="background:#a85400;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 4: Kazan|3rd<sup>♠</sup>]]|| colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m || colspan="7" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || || 4th || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || 7th || colspan="5" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="7" | || 4th<sup>@</sup>|| colspan="3" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd<sup>=</sup>|| colspan="5" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, London, UK 10 m || colspan="9" | || 5th || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="3" | || style="background:#a85400;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 5: London|3rd]]|| colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, London, UK 10 m (synchro) || colspan="14" | || style="background:gold;" | [[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 5: London|1st<sup>£</sup>]]|| colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, London, UK mixed 3 m springboard || colspan="14" | || style="background:gold;" |[[2019 FINA Diving World Series#Event 5: Kazan|1st<sup>♠</sup>]]|| colspan="2" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Edinburgh, UK, 10 m || colspan="8" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="8" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Sheffield, UK, 10 m || colspan="2" | || 4th || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || || 4th || colspan="10" | |
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| FINA Diving World Series, Sheffield, UK, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="2" | || 5th<sup>†</sup>|| style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>†</sup>|| 5th<sup>§</sup>|| || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>@</sup>|| colspan="10" | |
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| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 10 m || colspan="4" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="12" | |
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| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="4" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd<sup>§</sup>|| colspan="12" | |
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| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Madrid, 10 m || colspan="2" | || 4th || colspan="14" | |
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| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Canada, 10 m || colspan="2" | || 10th || colspan="14" | |
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! colspan="18" |National Championships |
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| '''[[British Swimming|British Championships]]''', 10 m || || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="5" | |
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| British Championships, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="3" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>†</sup>|| colspan="2" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>@</sup> || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>@</sup> || colspan="3" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>=</sup> || colspan="5" | |
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| British Championships, 10 m (Junior) || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="4" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="9" | |
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| British Championships, 3 m || colspan="6" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || colspan="10" | |
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| British Championships, 3 m (Junior) || || 4th || colspan="15" | |
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| British Championships, 1 m || || 17th || colspan="15" | |
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|'''[[Swim England|ASA National Championships]]''', 10 m || colspan="2" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="14" | |
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| ASA National Championships, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="2" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="15" | |
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| ASA National Championships, 10 m (Junior) || || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="14" | |
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| ASA National Championships, 3 m (Junior) || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="14" | |
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| ASA National Championships, 3 m || colspan="2" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || colspan="3" | || 5th || colspan="10" | |
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! colspan="18" |Junior championships |
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| '''[[Youth Olympic Games|Summer Youth Olympics]]''', 3 m || colspan="5" | || [[Diving at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics|9th]]|| colspan="11" | |
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| FINA Junior Diving World Championships, 3 m synchro ("A") || colspan="8" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>?</sup>|| colspan="8" | |
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| FINA Junior Diving World Championships, 3 m ("B") || colspan="3" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || colspan="13" | |
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| FINA Junior Diving World Championships, Boys 10 m Platform || colspan="3" | || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || colspan="3" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="9" | |
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| ASA Elite Junior National Championships, 1 m || || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="15" | |
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| ASA Elite Junior National Championships, 3 m || || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="15" | |
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| ASA Elite Junior National Championships, 10 m || || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="15" | |
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| CAMO Invitational Meet, 10 m || colspan="2" | || 6th || colspan="14" | |
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| CAMO Invitational Meet, 10 m (synchro) || colspan="2" | || style="background:gold;" | 1st<sup>†</sup>|| colspan="14" | |
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| Australian Junior Elite Diving Championships, 10 m || style="background:gold;" | 1st || colspan="16" | |
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| Australian Junior Elite Diving Championships, 3 m || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || colspan="16" | |
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| Aachen Junior International, 10 m || style="background:silver;" | 2nd || colspan="16" | |
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| Aachen Junior International, 3 m || style="background:#a85400;" | 3rd || colspan="16" | |
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<sup>§</sup> with [[Max Brick]]<br /> |
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<sup>@</sup> with [[Peter Waterfield]]<br /> |
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<sup>?</sup> with [[Jack Laugher]]<br /> |
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<sup>%</sup> with [[James Denny (diver)|James Denny]]<br /> |
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<sup>&</sup> with [[Rebecca Gallantree]]<br /> |
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<sup>*</sup> with [[Alicia Blagg]]<br /> |
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<sup>=</sup> with [[Daniel Goodfellow]]<br /> |
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<sup>♠</sup> with [[Grace Reid]]<br /> |
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<sup>£</sup> with [[Matty Lee]]<br /> |
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<sup>#</sup> with [[Noah Williams (diver)|Noah Williams]]<br /> |
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<sup>**</sup> semi-final result |
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Daley's current dives are:<ref>{{Citation |last=Daley |first=Tom |title=My 6 Olympic Dives...Explained! |date=25 February 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saw_EzhV550 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/saw_EzhV550 |archive-date=14 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=14 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> |
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#307C: Reverse 3 1/2 Somersault Tucked (3.4 Tariff) |
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#407C: Inward 3 1/2 Somersault Tucked (3.2 Tariff) |
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#5172B: Forward 3 1/2 Somersault w/ 1 Twist Piked (3.6 Tariff) |
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#626B: Armstand Back Triple Somersault Piked (3.5 Tariff) |
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#109C: Forward 4 1/2 Somersault Tucked (3.7 Tariff) |
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#207B: Back 3 1/2 Somersault Piked (3.6 Tariff) |
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==Personal life== |
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Daley created a [[YouTube]] channel on 23 August 2010. His channel covers various topics such as [[vlog]]s, exercise and food. As of August 2024, Daley has over 1.2 million subscribers with over 180 million views.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ULOEYE9J0qQOZoKQ4BS6Q |title=Tom Daley |website=YouTube |language=en |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref> |
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On 2 December 2013, Daley released a YouTube video announcing that he had been in a relationship with a man since early that year. He said: "I've never been happier."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25183041 |title=Olympic diving star Tom Daley Daley reveals relationship with man |work=BBC News |date=2 December 2013 |access-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202124234/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25183041 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |people=Daley, Tom (subject and author) |year=2013 |title=Tom Daley: Something I want to say... |medium=Home video |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJwJnoB9EKw |access-date=2 December 2013 |publisher=Tom Daley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202173848/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJwJnoB9EKw |archive-date=2 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Daley said that it had been a tough decision to speak out about his private life, but he had never before felt that feeling of love, which happened very quickly when he met his husband,<ref>{{cite news |title=Olympic diver Tom Daley reveals it was 'love at first sight' when he met partner |url=http://www.itv.com/news/2013-12-05/olympic-diver-tom-daley-reveals-it-was-love-at-first-sight-when-he-met-partner/ |work=ITV News |date=5 December 2013 |access-date=14 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214021531/http://www.itv.com/news/2013-12-05/olympic-diver-tom-daley-reveals-it-was-love-at-first-sight-when-he-met-partner/ |archive-date=14 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> American film screenwriter, director and producer [[Dustin Lance Black]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Respers France |first1=Lisa |title=Tom Daley engaged to Dustin Lance Black |url= http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/entertainment/tom-daley-dustin-lance-black-engaged-feat/ |access-date=22 May 2016 |publisher=CNN |date=2 October 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160625081140/http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/entertainment/tom-daley-dustin-lance-black-engaged-feat/ |archive-date=25 June 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Daley and Black met at an industry event, with Daley later saying that it was "a real love-at-first-sight thing".<ref name="Horton">{{Cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/14/tom-daley-announces-partner-having-baby/ |title=Tom Daley announces he and his partner are having a baby |last=Horton |first= Helena |date=14 February 2018 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=14 February 2018 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180214145218/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/14/tom-daley-announces-partner-having-baby/ |archive-date=14 February 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/30/tom-daley-if-i-hadnt-met-lance-i-dont-know-if-id-be-diving-now|title=Tom Daley: 'If I hadn't met Lance, I don't know if I'd be diving now'| date=30 July 2018| work= The Guardian}}</ref> He announced their engagement on 1 October 2015.<ref>{{cite news |first= Jenny |last= Booth |url= http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/celebrity/article4573094.ece |title=Tom Daley gets engaged to his boyfriend |work=[[The Times]] |date=1 October 2015 |access-date=1 October 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151003022339/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/celebrity/article4573094.ece |archive-date=3 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/02/tom-daley-dustin-lance-black-relationship_n_5252128.html |title=Tom Daley Talks 'Crazy' Attention on His Relationship With Dustin Lance Black |work=[[HuffPost]] |date=2 May 2014 |access-date=4 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140504105053/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/02/tom-daley-dustin-lance-black-relationship_n_5252128.html |archive-date=4 May 2014 |url-status= live }}</ref> Daley and Black married at [[Bovey Castle]] in [[Devon]] on 6 May 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-39836555 |title=Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black marry at Devon hotel |work=[[BBC News]] |date=6 May 2017 |access-date=7 May 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180501233808/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-39836555 |archive-date=1 May 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Their first child, a son, was born through [[surrogacy]] in June 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tom-daley-and-husband-have-baby-son-by-surrogate-f5vc3xskw |title=Tom Daley and husband have baby son by surrogate |first=Katie |last=Gibbons |date=30 June 2018 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 June 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180630012144/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tom-daley-and-husband-have-baby-son-by-surrogate-f5vc3xskw |archive-date=30 June 2018 |url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-43062264 |title= Tom Daley announces baby news |date=14 February 2018 |work=BBC News |access-date=14 February 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180214164816/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-43062264 |archive-date=14 February 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The couple's second son was born in March 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympic diver Tom Daley welcomes second son with husband Dustin Lance Black |url=https://news.sky.com/story/olympic-diver-tom-daley-welcomes-second-son-with-husband-dustin-lance-black-12850869 |access-date=6 April 2023 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref> |
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When asked about his [[sexual orientation]] in a July 2015 interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', Daley said: "I don't put a particular label on any of it because right now I'm in a relationship with a guy, but I still have sexual feelings towards girls".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/18/tom-daley-i-always-knew-i-was-attracted-to-guys-olympic-2012-diver |title=Tom Daley: 'I always knew I was attracted to guys' |first= Simon |last= Hattenstone |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=18 July 2015 |access-date=15 November 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151115001807/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/18/tom-daley-i-always-knew-i-was-attracted-to-guys-olympic-2012-diver |archive-date=15 November 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> He said in another interview that he had been in sexual relationships with girls, but his sexual feelings became "much more intense" when he met Lance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/tom-daley-bares-guardian-interview-dlb-olympics-growing-gay/ |title=Tom Daley Bares All In 'Guardian' Interview on Dating Dustin Lance Black, 2016 Olympics, and Growing Up Gay |last=Malec |first=Malec |work=[[towleroad]] |date=18 July 2015 |access-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208235124/http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/tom-daley-bares-guardian-interview-dlb-olympics-growing-gay/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> In an April 2018 interview with ''[[PinkNews]]'', Daley said he was "queer... not 100 percent straight... not 100 percent gay".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jackman |first1=Josh |title=Tom Daley says he's queer, 'not 100 percent gay' |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/24/tom-daley-says-hes-queer-not-100-percent-gay/ |website=PinkNews |date=24 April 2018 |access-date=8 February 2021}}</ref> Three years later he referred to himself as a "gay man".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/tom-daley-gets-first-olympic-gold-as-team-gb-wins-string-of-medals/ |title=Tokyo 2020: Team GB wins string of medals with Tom Daley getting first Olympic gold |first= Asher |last= McShane |newspaper=[[LBC]].co.uk |date=26 July 2021 |access-date=26 July 2021 }}</ref> |
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Daley likes to [[knitting|knit]] and [[crochet]], hobbies he took up when the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] lockdown began.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gariano |first=Francesca |date=2 August 2021 |title=Fans can't get over these adorable photos of Tom Daley knitting at the Olympics |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/tom-daley-goes-viral-knitting-stands-olympics-t227070 |access-date=6 April 2023 |website=TODAY.com |language=en}}</ref> During the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics television coverage of diving events, Daley was frequently shown knitting in the stands while he watched other athletes compete.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/05/tom-daleys-latest-olympic-triumph-self-knitted-team-gb-cardigan/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/05/tom-daleys-latest-olympic-triumph-self-knitted-team-gb-cardigan/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=How knitting became Tom Daley's marginal gain and made him an icon in Japan|first=Jeremy|last=Wilson|date=5 August 2021| work= The Telegraph| via= telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/05/tom-daley-knitting-cardigan-toyko-olympics-world-sport-vpx.cnni|title=Tom Daley Great Britain gold medalist unveils knitted cardigan |work= CNN.com|date=5 August 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.vogue.com/article/tom-daley-olympic-diver-knitting|title=I Would Pay Literally Any Amount of Money for a Sweater Knit by Olympian Tom Daley |first= |last=| publisher= Condé Nast|date=6 August 2021|website=Vogue.com | access-date= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-27 |title=Tom Daley spotted knitting at the Olympics again. He's said it's a 'superpower,' not a hobby |url=https://www.today.com/news/paris-olympics/tom-daley-knitting-paris-olympics-rcna163933 |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=TODAY.com |language=en}}</ref> He maintains a separate [[Instagram]] account dedicated to his knitting and crochet projects.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Made With Love |url=https://www.instagram.com/madewithlovebytomdaley/?hl=en |website=www.instagram.com |publisher=Instagram |access-date=15 September 2024 |format=Instagram Account}}</ref> In November 2024 an exhibition of his knitting work in Japan was announced, which would be part of his campaign for the rights of LGBTQ+ people.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McCurry |first=Justin |date=2024-11-02 |title=A ripping yarn: Olympian Tom Daley opens knitting exhibition in Japan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/02/tom-daley-knitting-exhibition-olympics-tokyo-japan |access-date=2024-11-04 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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===Views=== |
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In August 2014, Daley was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'' opposing [[Scottish independence]] in the run-up to September's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories |work= The Guardian |location=London |date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140817131736/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |archive-date=17 August 2014 |url-status= live}}</ref> |
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In a statement made on the eve of the [[Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018]], Daley called on [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth countries]] to repeal their [[anti-gay]] laws.<ref>{{cite web |last=Thin |first=Sandy |date=13 April 2018 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/sport/tom-daley-commonwealth-games-decriminalize-homosexuality-spt/index.html |title=Diver Tom Daley makes plea for 37 Commonwealth nations to relax anti-gay laws |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180501224625/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/sport/tom-daley-commonwealth-games-decriminalize-homosexuality-spt/index.html |archive-date=1 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Kelna |first=Martha |date=13 April 2018 |title=Tom Daley speaks out on anti-gay laws in Commonwealth nations after winning gold |website= The Guardian |access-date=16 August 2021 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/apr/13/tom-daley-brings-focus-to-commonwealth-countries-anti-gay-laws-video |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501161335/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/apr/13/tom-daley-brings-focus-to-commonwealth-countries-anti-gay-laws-video |archive-date=1 May 2018}}</ref> In response, the-then [[Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs|UK Foreign Secretary]] [[Boris Johnson]] told [[BBC Radio 1]]'s ''[[Newsbeat]]'' that he would raise concerns about gay rights with leaders of [[LGBT rights by country or territory|countries where homosexuality is illegal]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Connolly |first=Jim |date=18 April 2018 |website=BBC.co.uk |access-date=16 August 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43797566 |title=Boris Johnson promises Tom Daley he'll raise LGBT rights with Commonwealth |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421100210/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43797566 |archive-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> There have been repeated calls from the [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]] for governments to safeguard the rights of their vulnerable [[LGBT]] minorities.<ref>{{cite web| last= Radcliffe| first= Charles| date= 22 March 2013| url= http://webtv.un.org/watch/gay-rights-debate-unfolds-at-the-un/2245767907001 |title= Gay rights debate unfolds at the UN| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180416140406/http://webtv.un.org/watch/gay-rights-debate-unfolds-at-the-un/2245767907001 |archivedate=16 April 2018 | publisher= [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]]| via= YouTube| place= US| access-date= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| author= Ban Ki-moon| authorlink= Ban Ki-moon| date= 15 April 2013| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uaHZWCgGss |title= Ban Ki-moon: Struggle for LGBT right one of the great, neglected human rights challenges of our time| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170508040918/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uaHZWCgGss |archivedate= 8 May 2017 | publisher= [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]]| via= YouTube| place= US| access-date= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| date= 9 December 2013| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvpHn_zdkTY |title= A History of LGBT rights at the UN| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180517121640/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvpHn_zdkTY |archivedate=17 May 2018 | publisher= [[UN Human Rights Commission]]| access-date= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| date= 2 March 2017| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwvdz2Yvl0 |title= UN Free & Equal: The Lesson| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20181103152321/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwvdz2Yvl0 |archivedate=3 November 2018 | publisher= UN Human Rights Commission| access-date= }}</ref> [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] |
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In October 2021, Daley said he would make it his "mission" to campaign for countries where homosexuality is punishable by death to be banned from [[2024 Summer Olympics|the next Olympics]], "to make it so that the countries [where it's] punishable by death for LGBT people are not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lavietes |first1=Matt |title=Tom Daley calls for Olympic ban on countries where being gay is punishable by death |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-life-and-style/tom-daley-calls-ban-countries-gay-punishable-death-olympics-rcna2786 |access-date=9 October 2021 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=8 October 2021}}</ref> |
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===Media activities=== |
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In 2015, Daley became a patron of the LGBT+ charity [[Switchboard (UK)|Switchboard]] and collaborated with YouTuber [[Calum McSwiggan]] to relaunch the charity under its new name.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://attitude.co.uk/article/celebs-reveal-their-lgbt-heroes-for-switchboard/7143/ |title=Celebs reveal their LGBT heroes for Switchboard |date=26 June 2015 |work=[[Attitude (magazine)|Attitude]]| place= UK |access-date=28 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828170322/https://attitude.co.uk/article/celebs-reveal-their-lgbt-heroes-for-switchboard/7143/ |archive-date=28 August 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url= https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/patrickstrudwick/switchboard-selfies |title=These Celebrities Are Taking Selfies To Raise Awareness of an LGBT Helpline |work=BuzzFeed News |access-date=28 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829072125/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/patrickstrudwick/switchboard-selfies |archive-date=29 August 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In October 2017, Daley hosted the [[Virgin Holidays]] ''[[Attitude (magazine)|Attitude]]'' Awards for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://attitude.co.uk/the-attitude-awards-returns-with-brand-new-host-tom-daley/ |title=The Attitude Awards returns with brand new host Tom Daley |website= Attitude |access-date=30 May 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515111803/http://attitude.co.uk/the-attitude-awards-returns-with-brand-new-host-tom-daley/ |archive-date=15 May 2017}}</ref> |
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On 30 September 2018, he was the guest on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''. His favourite choice was "[[How Long Will I Love You?#Ellie Goulding version|How Long Will I Love You]]" by [[Ellie Goulding]]. His book choice was ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' by [[J. K. Rowling]] and his luxury item was an oven.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blhfpj |title=Desert Island Discs, Tom Daley |publisher= BBC Radio 4 |access-date=31 October 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181107142222/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blhfpj |archive-date=7 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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On 25 December 2021, he delivered the ''[[Alternative Christmas message]]'' for [[Channel 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKtH-UA85o|title=Tom Daley's Alternative Christmas Message 2021|date=25 December 2021 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> |
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Since 2023, Daley has been one of several British Olympians and Paralympians to feature in adverts for [[British Gas]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.marketing-beat.co.uk/2023/10/17/british-gas-team-gb-stars/|title=British Gas flips sporting stereotypes with Team GB stars|last=Louis|first=Yasmeen|date=17 October 2023|work=MarketingBeat|accessdate=4 December 2024}}</ref> |
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In July 2024, it was announced that Daley would join [[Eurosport]] as part of its on-screen team of pundits for its coverage at the [[2024 Summer Olympics|Paris Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24471798.paris-2024-tom-daley-join-eurosport-on-screen-team/|title=Paris 2024: Tom Daley to join Eurosport on-screen team|date=23 July 2024 |publisher=Oxford Mail|accessdate=25 July 2024}}</ref> In August of the same year, Daley partnered with [[Malibu (rum)|Malibu]] and the [[Royal Life Saving Society UK|Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK)]] as part of their "''Drink Don't Dive''" campaign, with Daley creating and modelling a range of knitted [[swim briefs]], [[sunglasses]], a [[bucket hat]] and sliders to raise funds for RLSS UK, and raise awareness of the dangers of swimming [[Alcohol intoxication|after drinking]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/08/olympic-diver-tom-daley-partners-with-malibu/|title=Olympic diver Tom Daley partners with Malibu|last=Fielden|first=Eloise|date=14 August 2024|work=[[The Drinks Business]]|accessdate=4 December 2024}}</ref> Malibu and RLSS UK repeated their partnership with Daley at Christmas 2024, with Daley designing a knitted [[Christmas jumper]] reading "''Drink Don't Drive''" to raise awareness of the dangers of [[Drunk driving|drink-driving]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.prima.co.uk/leisure/celebrity/a63080599/tom-daley-knitted-christmas-jumper-charity/|title=Tom Daley releases stylish knitted charity Christmas jumper|last=Cochrane|first=Ellis|date=4 December 2024|work=[[Prima (magazine)|Prima]]|accessdate=4 December 2024}}</ref> |
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==Honours and awards== |
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Daley was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2022 New Year Honours]] for services to diving, LGBTQ+ rights and charity.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63571|supp=y|page=N12|date=1 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/59828368|title= New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame|date=31 December 2021|work=BBC Sport}}</ref> |
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*Named Youngster of the Year by [[BBC South West]] in 2005.<ref name="Youngster of Year">{{cite news | date=[[December 5]] [[2005]] | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/12/02/bbc_sports_personality_2005_feature.shtml | title=BBC honours South West sports stars | publisher=BBC.co.uk | accessdate=2007-02-12 | author= }}</ref> |
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*Named Youngster of the Year by [[BBC South West]] in 2005.<ref name="Youngster of Year">{{cite news |date=5 December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/12/02/bbc_sports_personality_2005_feature.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131028150305/http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/12/02/bbc_sports_personality_2005_feature.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 October 2013 |title=BBC honours South West sports stars |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 February 2007 }}</ref> |
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*Short-listed to the final ten for the [[BBC]] [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality|Young Sports Personality of the Year]] award in 2006. |
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*Named [[BBC South West]] Sports Personality of the Year, 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8378000/8378542.stm |title=BBC South West Sports Awards 2009 |access-date=29 November 2009 |publisher=BBC Devon |date=29 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205165124/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8378000/8378542.stm |archive-date=5 December 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*Named [[BBC]] [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality|Young Sports Personality of the Year]] 2007. |
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*Short-listed to the final ten for the [[BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year]] award in 2006. |
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*Short-listed to the final three for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7750000/newsid_7754500/7754529.stm |title=Sportsround reveals young sports star finalists |access-date=28 November 2008 |work=[[CBBC Newsround]] |publisher=BBC |date=28 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119111927/http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7750000/newsid_7754500/7754529.stm |archive-date=19 January 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*Named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2007, 2009 and 2010 (only person ever to win this award more than once).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/8409930.stm |title=Tom Daley wins second Young BBC Personality award |access-date=13 December 2009 |work=BBC Sport |date=13 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217184937/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/8409930.stm |archive-date=17 December 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/9287853.stm |title=Diver Daley wins third BBC award |access-date=19 December 2010 |work=BBC Sport |date=19 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223053842/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/9287853.stm |archive-date=23 December 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*Short-listed to the final ten for the [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award]] in 2009<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/8386162.stm |title=Contenders for BBC Sports Personality award revealed |access-date=5 December 2009 |work=BBC Sport |date=7 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220231453/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/8386162.stm |archive-date=20 December 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> and 2010.<ref name="spoty2010" /> |
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*Ranked No. 63 in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'}}s 2008 edition of 100 Olympic Athletes To Watch.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825972,00.html |title=100 Olympic Athletes To Watch – 63. Tom Daley |access-date=22 August 2008 |last=Brunton |first=Michael |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=24 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822034155/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825972,00.html |archive-date=22 August 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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*Won ''LEN Magazine''{{'}}s "Athlete of the Year" award for men's divers, 2009, on behalf of the [[LEN|European Swimming Federation]]. The award is voted for by representatives of all European Aquatic Federations and the media.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/22225.asp?q=LEN%20Magazine%20Names%20Paul%20Biedermann,%20Britta%20Steffen%20Athletes%20of%20the%20Year |title=LEN Magazine Names Paul Biedermann, Britta Steffen Athletes of the Year |access-date=25 September 2009 |work=Lane 9 News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910180409/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/22225.asp?q=LEN%20Magazine%20Names%20Paul%20Biedermann,%20Britta%20Steffen%20Athletes%20of%20the%20Year |archive-date=10 September 2012 |date=25 September 2009}}</ref> |
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*Nominated for the 2010 [[Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laureus.com/press_releases?article_id=1823 |title=Legends of sport – Armstrong, Bolt, Federer, Rossi, Watson & Williams – among Nominees for 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards |access-date=11 February 2010 |publisher=Laureus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214195133/http://www.laureus.com/press_releases?article_id=1823 |archive-date=14 February 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swimwest.org/region/index.php?/news/sports/diving__1/diving_development_plans/tom_daley_at_the_2010_laureus_world_sports_awards |title=Tom Daley at the 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards |access-date=12 April 2010 |publisher=swimwest |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728080507/http://www.swimwest.org/region/index.php?%2Fnews%2Fsports%2Fdiving__1%2Fdiving_development_plans%2Ftom_daley_at_the_2010_laureus_world_sports_awards |archive-date=28 July 2011}}</ref> |
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*Included in ''[[The Sunday Times]]''{{'}} "100 Makers of the 21st Century" list.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/article1382724.ece |title=Britain's movers and shakers |work=The Sunday Times Magazine |date=9 March 2014 |access-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316110912/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/article1382724.ece |archive-date=16 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiRvAsgCUAEY66V.png |title=Makers of the 21st century |work=twimg.com |access-date=28 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323023551/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiRvAsgCUAEY66V.png |archive-date=23 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* He was awarded an [[Honorary degree|Honorary Doctorate]] on 27 September 2017 by the [[Plymouth Marjon University|University of St Mark and St John]] in [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/tom-daley-receives-honorary-degree-690715 |title=Tom Daley receives honorary degree from Plymouth Marjon University |last=Timms |first=Katie |date=27 October 2017 |website=The Plymouth Herald |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2021 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Olympic champions, Tom Daley and Giselle Ansley awarded Honorary Degrees |url=https://www.marjon.ac.uk/about-marjon/news-and-events/marjon-news/olympic-champions-tom-daley-and-giselle-ansley-awarded-honorary-degrees.html |website=The University of St Mark & St John |date=7 November 2017 |access-date=26 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary graduates 2017 |url=https://www.marjon.ac.uk/student-life/graduation/honorary-graduates/honorary-graduates-2017/ |website=The University of St Mark & St John |access-date=26 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* He was awarded the [[Freedom of the City]] of [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]] by the [[Plymouth City Council]] on 13 September 2021.<ref>{{cite news |title=Plymouth gives Tom Daley Freedom of the City |work=BBC News |date=13 September 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-58544754 |access-date=15 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/other-sport/tom-daley-extremely-delighted-freedom-5911354 |title=Tom Daley 'extremely delighted' with Freedom of Plymouth honour |last=Clark |first=Daniel |date=13 September 2021 |website=The Plymouth Herarld |publisher= |access-date=15 September 2021 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/tom-daley-honorary-freeman-plymouth-5909647 |title=Tom Daley will be honorary freeman of Plymouth after gold medal win |last=Watson |first=Eve |date=13 September 2021 |website=The Plymouth Herarld |publisher= |access-date=15 September 2021 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Daley to become Freeman of the City |url=https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/newsroom/plymouthnews/daleybecomefreemancity |website=Plymouth City Council |access-date=15 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* For the [[2020 Summer Olympics]], [[FINA]] named Daley winning the [[gold medal]] in the synchronized 10 metre platform event with his diving partner [[Matty Lee]] as the number three moment from the Olympic Games.<ref name="FINA24 Nov2021">[https://www.fina.org/news/2347884/tokyo-olympics-top-10-moments "Tokyo Olympics: Top 10 moments"]. ''[[FINA]]''. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.</ref> |
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* A 2024 [[YouGov]] survey asked young LGBTQ+ Britons (16–25) which public figures made a "positive impression" on them growing up in terms of making them feel more comfortable and less alone in their identities. Though the list was "long and widely varied", Daley came third.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/50625-visible-representation-who-do-young-lgbtq-britons-say-helped-them-growing-up|title=Visible representation: who do young LGBTQ+ Britons say helped them growing up?|website=YouGov|first=Matthew|last=Smith|date=2 October 2024|accessdate=3 October 2024}}</ref> |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080727114958/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825972,00.html "Tom Daley"], number 63 on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'}}s list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch" |
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*[http://www.sodexo.co.uk/uken/media-centre/press-releases/tom-daley.asp "Sponsorship splash for 14 year old diving phenomenon"] - Sodexo |
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/07/13/diver_thomas_daley_feature.shtml "Thomas tipped for the top"] - BBC Sport |
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/6267933.stm#daley "Stars for 2012"] - BBC Sport |
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/london_2012/7025725.stm "Olympic Dreams - Tom Daley"] - BBC Sport |
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*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/12/18/sodive118.xml "Tom Daley's sights set on Beijing Olympics"] - ''Daily Telegraph'' |
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*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article1293643.ece "High-flyer scaling platform to leap into record books"] - ''The Times'' |
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*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article3427995.ece "Tom Daley, 13, in at the Olympic deep end"] - ''The Times'' |
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Latest revision as of 02:21, 6 January 2025
Thomas Robert Daley (born 21 May 1994) is an English retired diver, YouTuber and television personality. He is an Olympic champion in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform event at the 2020 Olympics and double world champion in the FINA 10-metre platform event, winning in 2009 at the age of fifteen, and again in 2017. He is an Olympic bronze medallist in the 2012 platform event,[8] the 2016 synchronised event,[9] and the 2020 platform event.[10][11] He won the silver medal in the men's synchronised 10-metre at the 2024 Olympics, making him the first British diver to win 5 Olympic medals.[12][13] Daley also competed in team events, winning the inaugural mixed team World title in 2015, and repeating the win in 2024, his fourth World title in all. He is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, a two-time junior World Champion, a five-time European champion and four-time Commonwealth champion.
Daley started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club, where his talent was identified early, and made an impact in national and international competitions from age nine. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he was Britain's youngest competitor, age fourteen, and the youngest from any nation to participate in a final.[14] In 2009, Daley reached a career-best ranking of number one in the FINA World Aquatics Championships Diving Rankings for the 10 m platform.[15] He won two gold medals for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in the 10 m synchro diving (with Max Brick) and the 10 m Individual Platform competition.[16]
After the 2012 Summer Olympics and a summer of increased sporting interest amongst the UK public, television network ITV approached Daley to have a role in their new celebrity diving reality TV show Splash! Daley made his debut in the show's premiere on 5 January 2013 as a mentor to the celebrity competitors taking part.[17]
In 2023, Daley became an assistant diving coach at UCLA.[18]
In August 2024, a day after the 2024 Summer Olympics concluded, Daley announced his retirement from professional diving.[19]
Early life
[edit]Thomas Robert Daley[20][21] was born on 21 May 1994 at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, England,[2][22] the son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley.[23][24] He has two brothers – William who is three years younger, and Ben who is five years younger.[25] Their father, Robert, died from a brain tumour on 27 May 2011, aged 40, a few days after Daley's 17th birthday.[26] His early diving hero was Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie, who won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at the age of 13,[27] and British diver Leon Taylor, who later mentored him.[28] Daley was spotted by a coach taking part in regular diving lessons and was placed in a competitive squad in September 2002. His first competition was the National Novice Championships in April 2003 where he won a medal in the 8/9-year-old boys category. In September 2003, he took part in an invitational event in Southampton where he won the 1 m, 3 m and platform events, and first made his mark on the wider audience. Daley won his age group at the British Championships in the 1 m springboard, the 3 m springboard, and platform in 2004, 2005, and 2006.[29]
In June 2004, the month after his 10th birthday,[30] he won the platform competition in the National Junior (under-18) group, making him the youngest winner of that event.[29] In 2005, Daley competed as a guest competitor in the Australian Elite Junior Nationals and placed first in platform and second in 3 m springboard in the 14–15 age group event. He also competed in the 14–15 category at the 2005 Aachen Junior International, placing second in platform and third in 3 m springboard. He met the qualification standard for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but was not selected for the England team because of his age.[31] In 2006, he was the under-18 British champion in platform and 3 m springboard, and he placed second in the 10 m platform at the 2007 senior British Championships, which were held in December 2006.[29]
Education
[edit]From age 11 to 14, Daley attended Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth.[32] At 13, he became a celebrity supporter of Childline, a children's helpline run by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), and at that time it was revealed that he had been bullied eighteen months earlier.[33] In April 2009, Daley told Plymouth's main local newspaper The Herald that he had been bullied at school since the Olympics,[34] and his father told the BBC that he had temporarily withdrawn him from that school because its response to the problem had been "ineffective".[35] Daley was praised in the media for speaking out about his problem.[36][37]
Daley was offered a full scholarship to board at independent school Brighton College, but his father turned this down due to the distance from home, and instead accepted a "very significant scholarship" from local independent school Plymouth College.[38][39]
Daley took his GCSEs in small batches to fit around his diving commitments. He persuaded supermodel Kate Moss to pose for a recreation of an original portrait by David Hockney, as part of a GCSE photography project recreating great works of art, after meeting her on a photo shoot for Italian Vogue.[40]
In 2012, Daley finished his two-year A-level studies[41] in mathematics, Spanish and photography. Daley decided not to undertake an International Baccalaureate course because of the pressures he faced in his preparation for the 2012 Olympics. He passed all GCSE[42] and A-level exams with A or A*.[43]
International competitions
[edit]2007
[edit]In January 2007, at the age of twelve, Daley was given a special dispensation to compete at the 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival.[44] The usual minimum age is fifteen. Competing with a persistent thumb injury, Daley won the silver medal with synchro-partner Callum Johnstone in the 10 m synchronised diving final.[45]
Later in 2007, he won the senior platform title at the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) National Championships, the national championship for English divers. In 2007, he also began to compete on International Swimming Federation's (FINA) international diving circuit of Grand Prix and World Series events, twice finishing fourth in individual competition.
Daley won the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality award. He was considered a medal prospect for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London from this time, and was one of the British Olympians being tracked through the years leading up to London 2012 by the BBC television series Olympic Dreams.
2008
[edit]In January 2008, Daley won the 10 m platform event at the British Championships and became the youngest winner of the senior British 10 m title.[46] He also won the 10 m platform synchro title with new partner Blake Aldridge.
Two weeks later, Daley won his first medals on the FINA circuit, winning a bronze in the individual platform competition and a silver in synchro at the Madrid Grand Prix.[47] Daley and Aldridge won bronze in synchro at the 2008 FINA Diving World Cup. Their score was a British record and Daley became the youngest ever male medallist in a world diving event.[48] Daley came seventh in the individual competition. In March 2008, Daley became the youngest person to win a gold medal at the European Championships, held in Eindhoven.[49] The previous youngest winner was the Scottish swimmer Ian Black, who won a European gold in 1958 at the age of 17.
Daley qualified for the Beijing 2008 Olympics in the individual 10 m dive competition and, following the retirement of 2004 silver medallist Leon Taylor, in the 10 m platform synchro competition. Some in the British media reported that in competing he would become the youngest-ever male British Olympian,[50] until it was ascertained that Ken Lester, cox to the rowing pair at the 1960 Summer Olympics, had 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 at the Olympics, Daley participated in the FINA Junior World Championships for the first time (being too young to enter before). He finished second in the category "B" platform competition (for 14- and 15-year-old boys) with 549.60 points, between China's Qiu Bo (551.85 points) and Wu Dongliang (474.00 points).[54] He came second in the 3-metre springboard competition in the same category with 485.25 points, sandwiched between the two Chinese divers, Wu Dongliang (510.25 points) and Wang Peng (470.40 points).
2009
[edit]In February 2009, Daley retained his individual British 10 m championship, setting a competition personal best score of 517.55 points, 133.45 points ahead of the second-placed diver. He was unable to defend his 10 m synchronized title, as his dive partner Blake Aldridge had been injured in a brawl at a nightclub several days before the championships and was unable to dive.[55][56] In March 2009, he improved his personal best to 540.70 in coming third at a Diving World Series event in China,[57] and the following month he improved it to 540.85 while finishing second at the World Series event in Sheffield.[58]
During the Olympics, Daley had a row with diving partner Blake Aldridge when the latter phoned his mother between rounds. When Aldridge missed the British Championships because of the injury sustained in the nightclub incident, Daley's father said he would like his son to have a different diving partner. In April 2009, he started to dive with Max Brick, who is two years his senior, compared with the twelve-year gap with Aldridge.[59] The pair achieved a silver medal in the 10 m synchronized event at Fort Lauderdale on 8 May 2009.[60] Daley won the individual event in a new personal best of 554.90, scoring a perfect set of seven 10s for one of his dives.[61]
In the 2009 FINA World Championships, held in Rome, Daley unexpectedly won the individual platform title despite his lower tariff, with a score 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 the World Championships, Daley and Brick finished in 9th place following an inconsistent series of dives by the new pairing.[63]
2010
[edit]In the February 2010 British Championships individual 10 m competition, Daley unveiled his 5255B dive (back two-and-a-half somersault, one-and-a-half twists, with pike) in competition for the first time, giving him a 3.6 tariff dive (reduced from 3.8 in FINAs' September 2009 DD tables[64]). In this competition Daley finished in second place, 40.05 points behind Peter Waterfield.[65][66]
In the March 2010 FINA Diving World Series event in Qingdao individual 10 m competition, Daley showcased his two new dives and finished in 4th place, 520.35 points (his best score of the year).[67]
In the first April 2010 FINA Diving World Series event held in Veracruz, Mexico, Daley failed to qualify for the final round of the individual 10 m competition. A second event was held in the same venue three days later to replace the Sheffield DWS event which was cancelled because of the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Daley finished in fourth place, with a score of 519.70 points – his second highest score of the season (just 0.8 points away from bronze).[68]
In August 2010, Daley attended the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, intending to defend his individual 10 m title. However, an injury to his triceps muscle in the 10 m synchro competition forced his withdrawal from the synchro and individual 10 m competitions, and placed his participation in the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore in the following two weeks in doubt.[69][70] It was later announced that Daley would dive in the 3 m springboard but not in the 10 m platform.[71] Daley took part in the 3 m springboard diving competition and finished in 9th place.
On 12 October 2010, Daley attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India. He and his teammate Max Brick won the gold medal for Synchronized 10 m Platform Competition.[72] The following day he also won gold in the 10 m Individual Platform competition.
In November 2010, Daley was announced as a nominated sportsman for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2010 and the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010.[73] He won BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010 for the third time in his career,[74] and is the first person to receive this award three times.
2011
[edit]For the 2011 season, Daley was paired in the synchronized competitions with 2004 Athens Olympic silver medallist Peter Waterfield in British Swimming's continuing efforts to find the best synchro pairing for the 2012 Olympics.[75] At the 2011 National Cup, the British Championship was held in the new Southend Swimming and Diving Centre on 28–30 January and Daley came second in the 3m springboard competition behind Jack Laugher. With Waterfield, he won the 10 m platform synchronized competition.[76] The following day, Waterfield beat Daley to the individual 10 m platform title for the second successive year, by 494.25 points to 472.35, with Max Brick third with 399.80.[77]
In the 2011 World Championships, held in Shanghai, China, he was again paired with Waterfield in the 10 m synchro event. In the week before the competition, Waterfield was struck by a flu-like illness for five days, and consequently they finished in sixth place.[78] In the individual event, Daley finished in fifth place on 505.10 points, behind Qiu Bo (585.45), David Boudia (544.25), Sascha Klein (534.50), and Viktor Minibaev (527.50).[79]
On 27 July 2011, Daley took the first dive in London's newly built Olympic Park Aquatics Centre marking the one-year countdown until the games begin. It was broadcast live on BBC One and when interviewed he said "Marking the one year to go, by diving in the Aquatics Centre is an incredible honour. Only a few years ago, this was a distant dream. The fact that I qualified at the weekend and am taking the first dive is a complete privilege. I can't wait for next year and the honour of representing Team GB."[80]
2012
[edit]In the 2012 season, a thumb injury forced Daley's withdrawal from the National Cup a few days before the competition (the 10m platform title was won by Max Brick). In February 2012, British Diving's Performance Director Alexei Evangulov criticised Daley's work ethic, stating that he feared Daley's media and commercial activities were to the detriment of his training for the Olympics – a comment which was seemingly backed up when Daley and Pete Waterfield could only finish 7th in the 10 m synchro competition in the FINA World Cup event held at the London Aquatics Centre.[81]
Following a clear-the-air meeting between Daley, Evangulov, and Daley's representatives, Daley participated in the 2012 FINA Diving World Series. In the first event held in Dubai, Daley and Waterfield finished 4th in the 10 m synchro event, while Daley won silver in the individual 10 m event.[82] In the event held in Beijing a week later, Daley and Waterfield won the silver medal in the 10 m synchro event, while in the individual event Daley won silver and Waterfield the bronze.[83] Three weeks later, in the Moscow event, Daley won silver in the individual platform event, while the pairing finished fifth in the synchro.[84] In the final DWS meet of the year, in Tijuana, Mexico, Daley won gold in the individual platform event, and the pairing with Waterfield won bronze in the synchro event, although the Chinese did not compete in these events at this meet.[85] Over the whole 2012 Diving World Series, Daley and the Daley/Waterfield pairing won both the overall individual and synchro 10-metre competitions.[86]
In April 2012, Daley won the British elite juniors 10-metre platform title by a margin of 140 points at the 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 British Gas Diving Championships held in Sheffield in June 2012, which were also the Olympic trials, Daley and Waterfield won the 10 m synchro platform title with a new British record score of 475.77, more than 140 points ahead of silver medallists Daniel Goodfellow and Ross Haslam on 333.72.[89] In the individual 10 m championship, Daley regained the title for the first time since 2009 with a score of 547.60, ahead of Peter Waterfield on 452.80 and James Denny on 390.20.[90]
Olympics
[edit]In Britain, Daley had long been considered one of the "poster boys" of the 2012 Summer Olympics, (literally – an 80-foot tall banner depicting him adorned the John Lewis department store in Cardiff, while a 40-foot tall banner of his female equivalent, heptathlete Jessica Ennis, was on the Sheffield branch of the store chain.[91])
It was hoped that the 10 m men's synchronized platform event, on the first Monday of the Games, would provide Daley and Waterfield with an opportunity to supply Team GB's first medal of the Games. However, while the pairing was leading the competition after three dives, a poor reverse 3 1/2 somersaults with tuck in the fourth round put them out of contention and they ended the competition in fourth place on 454.65 points, behind the Chinese pairing of Cao Yuan and Zhang Yanquan on 486.78 points, the Mexican pairing of Iván García and Germán Sánchez on 468.90 points, and the US pairing of David Boudia and Nick McCrory on 463.47 points.[92] Following this disappointment, there was controversy when Daley was the subject of some abusive Twitter messages, which resulted in the police arresting a 17-year-old boy in Weymouth, Dorset, and a 28-year-old professional footballer for publishing offensive messages.[93]
Returning to the Aquatics Centre on the final Friday of the Games for the 10 m men's platform event, Daley initially gave his fans cause for concern with a poor performance in the preliminary round where he was ranked 15th of the 18 qualifying divers for the semi-final with 448.45 points (the eventual gold medal winner, David Boudia, ranked 18th). A much better performance in the semi-finals the next morning left Daley in fourth position on 521.10 points, behind Qiu Bo on 563.55, Lin Yue on 541.80, and Boudia on 531.15. The final round began in dramatic form when Daley's star status almost led to his undoing – a large number of camera flashes while he was diving distracted him and he only scored 75 points; a protest to the referee resulted in him being allowed to retake the dive, when he scored 91.80. By the beginning of the final round of dives in an enthralling contest, Daley was in the lead over Qiu Bo and David Boudia by 0.15 points, but Daley's final dive had a degree of difficulty of only 3.3 while his rivals both had 3.6 dives, and Daley won the bronze medal 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
[edit]At the 19th FINA World Junior Diving Championships, held in October 2012 in Adelaide, Australia, Daley led a strong British team and rather unexpectedly won the Boys "A" 3 m synchronized springboard competition together with Jack Laugher, who had won the individual 3 m competition, they had had little practice together. Daley and Laugher scored 338.85 points, over 30 points ahead of Ilia Kuzmin and Maxim Popkov.[96]
In the 10m individual platform event, Daley won the competition with a score of 663.95, ahead of Yang Jian on 611.95 and Chen Aisen on 597.20, scoring five 10's and two 9.5's on his fifth dive.[97][98]
2013
[edit]In January 2013, Daley was involved in the ITV celebrity diving show Splash!, where he was an expert adviser to the celebrity contestants.[99] While the show got a largely negative critical response, it nevertheless got the largest ratings on each of the five Saturday nights it was broadcast, and was renewed for a second season in 2014. Daley was warned by British Swimming chief executive David Sparkes that taking part in the series would risk damaging his chances of winning an Olympic gold medal in the future.[100]
At the British Gas Diving Championships held at his home pool in Plymouth on 8–10 February, Daley only competed in the individual 10-metre platform event, which he won with 501.00 points, ahead of James Denny on 374.90 points and Daniel Goodfellow on 340.25 points. Daley did not compete in the 10 m synchro platform event, as his partner Peter Waterfield had lost his funding following this Olympiad, and his future synchro partner had yet to be determined.
Daley's participation in competitive diving in 2013 was seriously restricted by an injury in May. In April he won the 10 m competition at the Edinburgh leg of the Diving World Series, but while subsequently training for the Diving Grand Prix event at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Daley injured his elbow and was forced to withdraw from the Fort Lauderdale competition and the subsequent DWS event in Mexico.[101][102] In training for the 2013 World Championships, in Barcelona, Daley suffered a torn triceps for the third time, and only competed following intense medical attention and painkilling injections; he finished the individual 10 m competition in 6th place.
2014
[edit]At the beginning of 2014, Daley moved his training base from the Life Centre in Plymouth to the London Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in east London, with a new coach, Jane Figueiredo.[103]
In January 2014 Daley was involved in the second series of Splash!.[104] Ratings were not as good as the first season, and the show was cancelled.
In the FINA Diving World Series, Daley came third in the 10m platform competition at the Beijing round, scoring 525.05 points, behind China's Cao Yuan on 579.45 and Qiu Bo on 534.05 points.[105]
In 2014, Daley hosted a six-part travel series for ITV2 called Tom Daley Goes Global.[106]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Daley won a silver medal in the men's synchronized 10 m platform with diving partner James Denny and gold in the men's 10 m platform, with 516.55 points, retaining his title from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010.[107]
In August 2014 at the European Championships in Berlin, the Daley/Denny partnership finished fourth in the 10 m platform synchro competition, in only their second competition,[108] while Daley won the silver medal in the 10 m platform competition, with 535.45 points, behind Russia's Viktor Minibaev who had 586.10 points.[109]
2015
[edit]For the 2015 season, Daley dropped the "demon dive" (backward 2.5 somersault with 2.5 twists, piked) which he had experienced difficulty with for several years, and replaced it with a forward 3.5 somersaults with one twist, which he called his "firework" dive and displayed for the first time at the British championships in Plymouth in February.[110]
At the British championships held in his old home pool in Plymouth, Daley won the individual 10 m platform title for the fifth time, with 493.70 points, ahead of 14-year-old Matthew Dixon on 427.15, and Matty Lee on 413.20.[111]
In the season's opening meet of the FINA Diving World Series, in Beijing, Daley conceded that the new dive still needed "work to be done" on it, as he failed to qualify for the final round.[112] Overall, throughout the years' DWS meets, in the 10 m platform competition Daley won the silver medal in the Dubai, Windsor, Ontario, and Mérida, Mexico legs, and gold in London, whilst with Alicia Blagg he won bronze in the mixed synchronized 3m springboard at Windsor and at Mérida.
At the World Championships held in Kazan, Russia, Daley won the gold medal with Rebecca Gallantree in the inaugural team event competition (Daley diving twice from the 10 m platform and once from the 3 m springboard, Gallantree diving once from the platform and twice from the 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 in ninth place after the second round.[114]
2016
[edit]For the 2016 season, Daley was paired with Daniel Goodfellow for the 10 m men's platform synchro competition, with a view to competing in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in this sport.
At the British National Diving Cup, the British Championships, held in January, Daley won a gold in the individual 10 m platform competition with 545.80 points, ahead of Matty Lee on 461.00 and Dan Goodfellow on 419.35 points.[115] In the synchronized 10 m platform competition, Daley and Goodfellow won the competition, but they were the only entrants in the competition after Lee and James Denny withdrew following a power cut at the venue.[116]
Daley and Goodfellow got bronze at the 2016 FINA Diving World Cup,[117] earning them a spot in the 10 m synchro competition at the Olympic Games.[118] At the 2016 FINA Diving World Series, which consisted of four competitions, Daley earned six medals. In the synchro event, he and Goodfellow medalled at each of the four competitions, earning two silver and two bronze medals. In the individual event, Daley earned a silver and a bronze medal.[119]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Daley and Goodfellow won a bronze medal in the synchronized 10 m platform. In the individual 10 m platform, Daley placed first in the preliminaries (with an Olympic record score of 571.85 points, which was later broken by Chen Aisen in the finals). However, he had difficulties the next day, placing 18th in the semi-finals and failing to qualify for the finals.
2017
[edit]In the 2017 FINA World Series, Daley took home 1 bronze medal in Beijing (10 m Platform), 3 bronze medals in Kazan (10 m Platform, 10 m Synchro, and 3 m Mixed), and one silver medal in Guangzhou (10 m Platform). On 22 July 2017, he won the gold medal in the 10 m platform event at the FINA World Championships held in Budapest.
2018–2019
[edit]In the 2018 FINA Diving World Series, Daley won 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal in Beijing (3 m Mixed and 10 m Synchro), 1 silver medal in Fuji (3 m Mixed), 1 silver medal in Montreal (3 m Mixed), and 1 silver medal in Kazan (3 m Mixed).
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games held at the Gold Coast, Australia, Daley and Goodfellow won gold on the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.[120]
Daley partnered with Matty Lee starting in October 2018 in the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.[121] At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea, Daley and Lee finished in the bronze position in the 10 m synchro.[122]
2021
[edit]At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup, which was held in Japan as an official test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,[a] Daley won his first World Cup gold with Matty Lee in synchronized 10 m platform.[123] He also won gold in the individual 10 m platform.[124] At the European Championships held in Budapest, Daley and Lee also won gold in synchronized 10 m platform,[125] and a silver in the individual 10 m platform.[126]
On 26 July, Daley and Lee won the 2020 Olympic gold medal in the Men's synchronized 10 m platform diving event.[127]
On 7 August, Tom Daley qualified for the final of Men's individual 10 m platform diving, improving on his performance in the individual event at Rio 2016.[128] He went on to win bronze in the final.[129]
2024
[edit]Daley was selected to take part in the 10 metre platform synchronised event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with Noah Williams;[130][131] the pair went on to win the silver medal.[132] He was also chosen to be one of Team GB's flag-bearers at the opening ceremony alongside rower Helen Glover.[133][134][135] The day after the closing ceremony, Daley announced his official retirement from diving.[136][19]
Competitive history
[edit]- British champion in all events (1 m, 3 m, platform) in 2004, 2005 and 2006 in the relevant age group.
Competition | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2024 | |
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Olympic Games | ||||||||||||||||||
Olympic Games, 10 m | 7th | 3rd | 18th** | 3rd | ||||||||||||||
Olympic Games, 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 Aquatics Diving World Series | ||||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 10 m | 2nd | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada mixed 3 m springboard | 3rd* | 2nd= | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | 2nd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m | 1st | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10 m synchro | 2nd£ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Changzhou, China, 10 m | 3rd | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Nanjing, China, 10 m | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Qingdao, China, 10 m | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m | 3rd@ | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | |||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | 3rd= | 3rd= | |||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 3 m mixed synchro | 2nd♠ | 3rd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 10 m (synchro) | 4th£ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Sagamihara, Japan, 3 m mixed synchro | 3rd♠ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Fuji, Japan, mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m | 5th | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Tijuana, Mexico, 10 m (synchro) | 5th† | 3rd@ | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Veracruz, Mexico, 10 m | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 m | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World 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 Diving World Series, Doha, Qatar, 10 m | 6th | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Russia, 10 m | 5th | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, Russia, 10 m (synchro) | 5th@ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m | 2nd | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m (synchro) | 3rd= | 3rd= | 3rd£ | |||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, mixed 3 m springboard | 2nd♠ | 3rd♠ | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 7th | ||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | 2nd= | ||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, London, UK 10 m | 5th | 1st | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, London, UK 10 m (synchro) | 1st£ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, London, UK mixed 3 m springboard | 1st♠ | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving World Series, Edinburgh, UK, 10 m | 1st | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Diving 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 Diving Grand Prix, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 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 Junior Diving World Championships, 3 m synchro ("A") | 1st? | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Junior Diving World Championships, 3 m ("B") | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||
FINA Junior Diving World Championships, Boys 10 m Platform | 2nd | 1st | ||||||||||||||||
ASA Elite Junior National Championships, 1 m | 1st | |||||||||||||||||
ASA Elite Junior National Championships, 3 m | 1st | |||||||||||||||||
ASA Elite 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 Junior International, 3 m | 3rd |
† with Blake Aldridge
§ with Max Brick
@ with Peter Waterfield
? with Jack Laugher
% with James Denny
& with Rebecca Gallantree
* with Alicia Blagg
= with Daniel Goodfellow
♠ with Grace Reid
£ with Matty Lee
# with Noah Williams
** semi-final result
Daley's current dives are:[137]
- 307C: Reverse 3 1/2 Somersault 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: Back 3 1/2 Somersault Piked (3.6 Tariff)
Personal life
[edit]Daley created a YouTube channel on 23 August 2010. His channel covers various topics such as vlogs, exercise and food. As of August 2024, Daley has over 1.2 million subscribers with over 180 million views.[138]
On 2 December 2013, Daley released a YouTube video announcing that he had been in a relationship with a man since early that year. He said: "I've never been happier."[139][140] Daley said that it had been a tough decision to speak out about his private life, but he had never before felt that feeling of love, which happened very quickly when he met his husband,[141] American film screenwriter, director and producer Dustin Lance Black.[142] Daley and Black met at an industry event, with Daley later saying that it was "a real love-at-first-sight thing".[143][144] He announced their engagement on 1 October 2015.[145][146] Daley and Black married at Bovey Castle in Devon on 6 May 2017.[147] Their first child, a son, was born through surrogacy in June 2018.[148][149] The couple's second son was born in March 2023.[150]
When asked about his sexual orientation in a July 2015 interview with The Guardian, Daley said: "I don't put a particular label on any of it because right now I'm in a relationship with a guy, but I still have sexual feelings towards girls".[151] He said in another interview that he had been in sexual relationships with girls, but his sexual feelings became "much more intense" when he met Lance.[152] In an April 2018 interview with PinkNews, Daley said he was "queer... not 100 percent straight... not 100 percent gay".[153] Three years later he referred to himself as a "gay man".[154]
Daley likes to knit and crochet, hobbies he took up when the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began.[155] During the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics television coverage of diving events, Daley was frequently shown knitting in the stands while he watched other athletes compete.[156][157][158][159] He maintains a separate Instagram account dedicated to his knitting and crochet projects.[155][160] In November 2024 an exhibition of his knitting work in Japan was announced, which would be part of his campaign for the rights of LGBTQ+ people.[161]
Views
[edit]In August 2014, Daley was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[162]
In a statement made on the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018, Daley called on Commonwealth countries to repeal their anti-gay laws.[163][164] In response, the-then UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat that he would raise concerns about gay rights with leaders of countries where homosexuality is illegal.[165] There have been repeated calls from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for governments to safeguard the rights of their vulnerable LGBT minorities.[166][167][168][169] Prime Minister
In October 2021, Daley said he would make it his "mission" to campaign for countries where homosexuality is punishable by death to be banned from the next Olympics, "to make it so that the countries [where it's] punishable by death for LGBT people are not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games."[170]
Media activities
[edit]In 2015, Daley became a patron of the LGBT+ charity Switchboard and collaborated with YouTuber Calum McSwiggan to relaunch the charity under its new name.[171][172]
In October 2017, Daley hosted the Virgin Holidays Attitude Awards for the first time.[173]
On 30 September 2018, he was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. His favourite choice was "How Long Will I Love You" by Ellie Goulding. His book choice was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling and his luxury item was an oven.[174]
On 25 December 2021, he delivered the Alternative Christmas message for Channel 4.[175]
Since 2023, Daley has been one of several British Olympians and Paralympians to feature in adverts for British Gas.[176]
In July 2024, it was announced that Daley would join Eurosport as part of its on-screen team of pundits for its coverage at the Paris Olympics.[177] In August of the same year, Daley partnered with Malibu and the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) as part of their "Drink Don't Dive" campaign, with Daley creating and modelling a range of knitted swim briefs, sunglasses, a bucket hat and sliders to raise funds for RLSS UK, and raise awareness of the dangers of swimming after drinking.[178] Malibu and RLSS UK repeated their partnership with Daley at Christmas 2024, with Daley designing a knitted Christmas jumper reading "Drink Don't Drive" to raise awareness of the dangers of drink-driving.[179]
Honours and awards
[edit]Daley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to diving, LGBTQ+ rights and charity.[180][181]
- Named Youngster of the Year by BBC South West in 2005.[182]
- Named BBC South West Sports Personality of the Year, 2009.[183]
- Short-listed to the final ten for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2006.
- Short-listed to the final three for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2008.[184]
- Named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2007, 2009 and 2010 (only person ever to win this award more than once).[185][186]
- Short-listed to the final ten for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2009[187] and 2010.[73]
- Ranked No. 63 in Time's 2008 edition of 100 Olympic Athletes To Watch.[188]
- Won LEN Magazine's "Athlete of the Year" award for men's divers, 2009, on behalf of the European Swimming Federation. The award is voted for by representatives of all European Aquatic Federations and the media.[189]
- Nominated for the 2010 Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year.[190][191]
- Included in The Sunday Times' "100 Makers of the 21st Century" list.[192][193]
- He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate on 27 September 2017 by the University of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, Devon.[194][195][196]
- He was awarded the Freedom of the City of Plymouth, Devon by the Plymouth City Council on 13 September 2021.[197][198][199][200]
- For the 2020 Summer Olympics, FINA named Daley winning the gold medal in the synchronized 10 metre platform event with his diving partner Matty Lee as the number three moment from the Olympic Games.[201]
- A 2024 YouGov survey asked young LGBTQ+ Britons (16–25) which public figures made a "positive impression" on them growing up in terms of making them feel more comfortable and less alone in their identities. Though the list was "long and widely varied", Daley came third.[202]
Year | Award-giving body | Category | Result |
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2006 | BBC Sports Personality of the Year | BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year | Nominated |
2007 | Won | ||
The Herald Awards | Sports Personality of the Year | Won | |
2008 | BBC Sports Personality of the Year | BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year | Nominated |
2009 | BBC Sports Personality of the Year | ||
BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year | Won | ||
The Daily Telegraph/Aviva School Sport Matters Awards | Student of the Year (Male) | ||
The Herald Awards | Sports Personality of the Year | ||
2010 | BBC Radio 1's Teen Awards | Best Sports Star | |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year | BBC Sports Personality of the Year | Nominated | |
BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year | Won | ||
Laureus World Sports Awards | Breakthrough of the Year | Nominated | |
2011 | BBC Radio 1's Teen Awards | Best Young Sports Star | Won |
2012 | Best British Sports Star | ||
Male Hottie of the Year | |||
The Herald Awards | Sports Personality of the Year | ||
2013 | Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards | Favourite UK Sports Star | |
2014 | Attitude Awards | Man of the Year[203] | |
2017 | British LGBT Awards | Independent Influencer Award[204] (with Dustin Lance Black) |
Notes
[edit]- ^ postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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[edit]- Thomas Daley at World Aquatics
- Tom Daley at British Swimming
- Tom Daley at Olympedia (archive)
- Tom Daley at Team GB
- Tom Daley at Team England
- Thomas Daley at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Tom Daley's channel on YouTube
- Tom Daley at IMDb
- Plymouth Diving Club profile
- "Diver Daley Wins BBC Young Sports Personality 2007" – British Olympic Association
- "Tom Daley", number 63 on Time's list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch"
- Students interview Tom Daley
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