[28] Daley was praised in the media for speaking out about his problem. In the individual 10m 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). He was unable to defend his 10m 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. Short-listed to the final three for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2008. 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). "[129] When asked about his coming to terms with his same-sex attraction and his relationship with Black, he said: "I'd been in relationships with girls where I'd had sexual feelings, but it became so much more intense when I met Lance. [157], 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. [33] Daley obtained eight A* grades and one A in his GCSEs. [115], At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup, which was held in Japan as an official test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Daley won his first World Cup gold with Matty Lee in synchronized 10m platform.

"[125][126] Daley said that it had been a tough decision to speak out about his private life. In July 2022, Tom was awarded an OBE for his services to diving, LGBTQ+ rights and charity. Daley's participation in competitive diving in 2013 was seriously restricted by an injury in May. [13], 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! [47] 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). 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. [78] Over the whole 2012 Diving World Series, Daley and the Daley/Waterfield pairing won both the overall individual and synchro 10-metre competitions. [116] He also won gold in the individual 10m platform. ? [9][10] Daley also competes in team events, winning the inaugural mixed team World title in 2015. [72], 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.

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.[96]. & with Rebecca Gallantree [81], In the British Gas Diving Championships held in Sheffield in June 2012, which were also the Olympic trials, Daley and Waterfield won the 10m 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. The fact that I qualified at the weekend and am taking the first dive is a complete privilege. [98], In 2014 Daley hosted a six-part travel series for ITV2 called Tom Daley Goes Global. [87][88], 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" 3m synchronized springboard competition together with Jack Laugher, who had won the individual 3m competition, they had had little practice together. "[158], 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. Summer 2021 saw Tom compete in the Tokyo Olympics where he won his first Olympic gold medal alongside his diving partner Matty Lee in the 10m synchro event. [105] Overall, throughout the years' DWS meets, in the 10m platform competition Daley won the silver medal in the Dubai, Windsor, Ontario, and Mrida, Mexico legs, and gold in London, whilst with Alicia Blagg he won bronze in the mixed synchronized 3m springboard at Windsor and at Mrida. In January 2008, Daley won the 10m platform event at the British Championships and became the youngest winner of the senior British 10m title. [39] He also won the 10m platform synchro title with new partner Blake Aldridge. [108] In the synchronized 10m 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. * with Alicia Blagg Some in the British media reported that in competing he would become the youngest-ever male British Olympian,[43] 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. "[127] His husband is American Oscar-winning film screenwriter, director and producer Dustin Lance Black. On 22 July 2017 he won the gold medal in the 10m platform event at the FINA World Championships held in Budapest. [141] The family lives in London.

[100], In August 2014 at the European Championships in Berlin, the Daley/Denny partnership finished fourth in the 10m platform synchro competition, in only their second competition,[101] while Daley won the silver medal in the 10m platform competition, with 535.45 points, behind Russia's Viktor Minibaev who had 586.10 points. As of September 2021, Daley has over 1,200,000 subscribers with over 130 million views. Television coverage of diving events frequently showed Daley knitting, in the stands, while he watched other athletes compete. Thomas Robert Daley OBE (born 21 May 1994) is a British diver and television personality. 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. [143], Daley likes to knit and crochet, hobbies he took up after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began. Daley won the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality award. [106] In the individual 10m 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.[107]. In the individual event, Daley earned a silver and a bronze medal.[112].

This page was last edited on 10 July 2022, at 11:43. From winning his first diving gold at 13-years-old and going on to represent Team GB at the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games, Tom has gone on to inspire the nation. For the 2016 season Daley was paired with Daniel Goodfellow for the 10m men's platform synchro competition, with a view to competing in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in this sport. He is a 5-time European champion and 4-time Commonwealth champion. [163], 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.[164][165].

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. [128], In the video, he did not use the words "gay" or "bisexual". [135][136] Daley and Black married at Bovey Castle in Devon on 6 May 2017. [54], 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. [111] Named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2007, 2009 and 2010 (only person ever to win this award more than once).

[122], with Blake Aldridge [31] A few weeks later it was confirmed that Daley had enrolled at Plymouth College. [159][160], In October 2017, Daley hosted the Virgin Holidays Attitude Awards for the first time. [41] Daley came seventh in the individual competition. [26] In April 2009, Daley alleged to Plymouth's main local newspaper The Herald that he had been bullied at school since the Olympics,[27] and his father told the BBC that he had temporarily withdrawn him from that school because its response to the problem had been ineffective. Their score was a British record and Daley became the youngest ever male medallist in a world diving event. [40] Daley and Aldridge won bronze in synchro at the 2008 FINA Diving World Cup. [74], Following a clear-the-air meeting between Daley, Evangulov, and Daley's representatives, Daley participated in the 2012 FINA Diving World Series. A passionate knitter, hes since started his own knitting label, Made With Love, which launched with a 15 piece knitting kit collection. Only a few years ago, this was a distant dream. Daley did not compete in the 10m 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. He said: "I've never been happier. Daley won his age group at the British Championships in the 1m springboard, the 3m springboard, and platform in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Tom is one of the kindest, most inspirational and talented people we know and a complete pleasure to work with. [16][17] He has two brothers William who is three years younger, and Ben who is five years younger. [22], In June 2004, the month after his tenth birthday,[23] he won the platform competition in the National Junior (under-18) group, making him the youngest winner of that event. In April 2009 he started to dive with Max Brick, who is two years his senior, compared with the twelve-year gap with Aldridge. 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. [32], Daley took his GCSEs in small batches to fit around his diving commitments. At the British Gas Diving Championships held at his home pool in Plymouth on 810 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. I can't wait for next year and the honour of representing Team GB. He and his teammate Max Brick won the gold medal for Synchronized 10m Platform Competition. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Daley and Goodfellow won a bronze medal in the synchronized 10m platform. [58][59], In the March 2010 FINA Diving World Series event in Qingdao individual 10m competition, Daley showcased his two new dives and finished in 4th place, 520.35 points (his best score of the year). [34], In 2012, Daley finished his two-year A-level studies[35] in mathematics, Spanish and photography. Competing with a persistent thumb injury, Daley won the silver medal with synchro-partner Callum Johnstone in the 10m synchronized-diving final.[38]. [66] He won BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010 for the third time in his career,[67] and is the first person to receive this award three times. 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. 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. 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. [48][49] In March 2009 he improved his personal best to 540.70 in coming third at a Diving World Series event in China,[50] and the following month he improved it to 540.85 while finishing second at the World Series event in Sheffield. [102], 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.

[19] His early diving hero was Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie, who won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at the age of 13,[20] and British diver Leon Taylor, who later mentored him. [60], 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 10m competition. [75] In the event held in Beijing a week later, Daley and Waterfield won the silver medal in the 10m synchro event, while in the individual event Daley won silver and Waterfield the bronze. 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