Tom Daley

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Tom Daley

Tom Daley at Our Greatest Team Parade in 2012
Personal information
Full name Thomas Robert Daley[1]
Born (1994-05-21) 21 May 1994
Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Weight 74 kg (11 st 9 lb; 163 lb)[2]
Sport
Country  United Kingdom
 England
Event(s) 10 m, 10 m synchro, 3 m
Club Plymouth Diving Club / London High Performance Centre[3]
Partner Dustin Lance Black (Engaged 2015)
Medal record
Men's Diving
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2012 London 10m platform
World Championships
2009 Rome 10m platform
2015 Kazan Team event
2015 Kazan 10m platform
European Championships
2008 Eindhoven 10m platform
2012 Eindhoven 10m platform
2014 Berlin 10m platform
Junior World Championships
2012 Adelaide 10m platform
2012 Adelaide Synchro 3m springboard
2008 Aachen 10m platform
2008 Aachen 3m springboard
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi 10m platform
2010 Delhi Synchro 10m platform
2014 Glasgow 10m platform
2014 Glasgow Synchro 10m platform

Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley (born 21 May 1994)[2] is an English diver and television personality. Daley specialises in the 10 metre platform event and was the 2009 FINA World Champion in the individual event at the age of 15. 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 competitions from age 9. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he was Britain's youngest competitor, the youngest competitor of any nationality outside the sport of swimming, and the youngest to participate in a final.[4] In 2009, Daley reached a career best ranking of number one in the FINA World Diving Rankings for the ten-metre platform.[5]

He won two gold medals for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in the 10 metre synchro diving (with Max Brick) and the 10 m Individual Platform competition,[6] and won the bronze medal for Great Britain in the individual competition at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.[7]

After his success at the 2012 Olympic Games and a summer of great sporting interest amongst the public in the UK, 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.[8]

Early life and career

Daley was born Plymouth, Devon, England, the son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley.[9][10] He has two brothers - William who is three years younger, and Ben who is five years younger.[11] Their father, Robert, died from a brain tumour on 27 May 2011, aged 40.[12] His early diving hero was Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie, who won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at the age of 13,[13] and British diver Leon Taylor, who later mentored him.[14] 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.[15]

In June 2004, the month after his tenth birthday,[16] he won the platform competition in the National Junior (under 18) group, making him the youngest winner of that event.[15] 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.[17] In 2006, he was the under-18 British champion in platform and 3m springboard, and he placed second in the 10 m platform at the 2007 senior British Championships, which were held in December 2006.[15]

Education

From age 11 to 14 Daley attended Eggbuckland Community College.[18] At 13 he became a celebrity supporter of ChildLine, a children's helpline run by the NSPCC, and at that time it was revealed that he had been bullied eighteen months earlier.[19] In April 2009, Daley alleged to Plymouth's main local newspaper The Herald that he had been regularly bullied at school since the Olympics,[20] and his father told the BBC that he had temporarily withdrawn him from that school because its response to the problem had been ineffective.[21] Daley was praised in the media for speaking out about the problem.[22][23]

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 entered negotiations with local independent school Plymouth College, which had offered him a "very significant scholarship".[24] A few weeks later it was confirmed that Daley had enrolled at Plymouth College.[25]

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 the Italian version of Vogue.[26] Daley obtained one A and eight A* grades in his GCSEs.[27]

In 2012, Daley finished his two-year A-level studies[28] 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 received an A* in his photography A-level, and an A in his Spanish and maths A-levels.[29]

International competitions

2007

Tom Daley in 2008

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.

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 FINA's international diving circuit of Grand Prix and World Series events, twice finishing fourth in individual competition.

2008

In January 2008, Daley won the 10 m platform event at the British Championships to become the youngest winner of the senior British 10 m title.[30] 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.[31] 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.[32] 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.[33] 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 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,[34] until it was ascertained that Ken Lester, cox to the rowing pair at the 1960 Olympic Games, had been 13 years and 144 days old at the time.[35] In the Olympic synchronised 10 metre platform competition, they placed 8th,[36] while in the individual 10 metre platform competition he finished 7th.[37]

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).[38] 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).

Daley won the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality award. He was considered a medal prospect for the 2012 Olympic Games 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.

2009

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 synchronised 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.[39][40] In March 2009 he improved his personal best to 540.70 in coming third at a Diving World Series event in China,[41] and the following month he improved it to 540.85 while finishing second at the World Series event in Sheffield.[42]

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'd 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.[43] The pair achieved a silver medal in the 10m synchronised event at Fort Lauderdale on 8 May 2009.[44] 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.[45]

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.[46] In the 10 m platform synchronised event at the World Championships, Daley and Brick finished in 9th place following an inconsistent series of dives by the new pairing.[47]

2010

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[48]). In this competition Daley finished in 2nd place, 40.05 points behind Peter Waterfield.[49][50]

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).[51]

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, but in the second event 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 4th place, with a score of 519.70 points - his second highest score of the season (just 0.8 points away from bronze).[52]

In August 2010, Daley attended the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, intending to defend his individual 10m title. However, an injury to his triceps muscle in the 10m synchro competition forced his withdrawal from both the synchro and individual 10m competitions, and placed his participation in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in the following two weeks in doubt.[53][54] It was later announced that Daley would dive in the 3m springboard but not in the 10m platform.[55] Daley took part in the 3m springboard diving competition and finished in 9th place.

On 12 October 2010, Daley attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India and he, together with his teammate Max Brick, won the gold medal for Synchronised 10m Platform Competition. The following day he also won gold in the 10m Individual Platform competition.

In November 2010, Daley was announced as one of the nominated sportsmen for both the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2010 and BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010.[56] He went on to win BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010 for the third time in his career, and is the first person to receive this award three times.

2011

For the 2011 season, Daley was paired in the synchronised 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.[57] 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 2nd in the 3m springboard competition behind Jack Laugher and, together with Waterfield, won the 10m platform synchronised competition.[58] The following day, Waterfield beat Daley to the individual 10m platform title for the second successive year, by 494.25 points to 472.35, with Max Brick third with 399.80.[59]

In the 2011 World Championships, held in Shanghai, China, he was again paired with Waterfield in the 10m synchro event, however in the week before the competition Waterfield was struck by a flu-like illness for five days, and consequently they finished in 6th place.[60] In the individual event, Daley finished in 5th place on 505.10 points, behind Qiu Bo (585.45), David Boudia (544.25), Sascha Klein (534.50), and Victor Minibaev (527.50).[61]

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."[62]

2012

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 10m synchro competition in the FINA World Cup event held at the London Aquatics Centre.[63]

Following a clear-the-air meeting between Daley, Evangulov, and Daley's representatives, Daley went on to participate in the 2012 FINA Diving World Series - in the first event held in Dubai, Daley and Waterfield finished 4th in the 10m synchro event, while Daley won silver in the individual 10m event.[64] 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.[65] Three weeks later, in the Moscow event, Daley won silver in the individual platform event, while the pairing finished 5th in the synchro.[66] 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.[67] Over the whole 2012 Diving World Series, Daley and the Daley/Waterfield pairing won both the overall individual and synchro 10 metre competitions.[68]

In April 2012, Daley won the British elite juniors 10 metre platform title by a margin of 140 points at the Plymouth Life Centre.[69]

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 Victor Minibaev in silver position.[70]

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.[71] In the individual 10m 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.[72]

Olympics

Daley holding his individual Olympic bronze medal at the Olympic Victory Parade

In Britain Daley had long been considered one of the "poster boys" of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, (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.[73])

It was hoped that the 10-metre men's synchronised 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 Nicholas McCrory on 463.47 points.[74] 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.[75]

Returning to the Aquatics Centre on the final Friday of the Games for the 10-metre 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 semifinal with 448.45 points (the eventual gold medal winner, David Boudia, ranked 18th). A much better performance in the semifinals 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.[7][76]

World Junior Diving Championships

At the 19th FINA World Junior Diving Championships, held in October 2012 in Adelaide, Australia, Daley lead a strong British team and rather unexpectedly won the Boys "A" 3m synchronised springboard competition together with Jack Laugher, who had previously won the individual 3m competition, despite the pair only having a minimal amount of practice together. Daley and Laugher scored 338.85 points, over 30 points ahead of Ilia Kuzmin and Maxim Popkov.[77]

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.[78][79]

2013

In January 2013, Daley was involved in the ITV celebrity diving show Splash!, where he was an expert adviser to the celebrity contestants.[80] 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.

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 10m synchro platform event, as his partner Peter Waterfield had lost his funding following the Olympic Games, 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 10m 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.[81][82] 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 10m competition in 6th place.

2014

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 Figueredo.[83]

In January 2014 Daley was involved in the second series of Splash!. 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 Yuan Cao on 579.45 and Qiu Bo on 534.05 points.[84]

In 2014 Daley hosted a six-part travel series for ITV2 called Tom Daley Goes Global.

At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Daley won a silver medal in the men's synchronised 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.[85]

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,[86] 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.[87]

2015

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 1 twist, which he called his "firework" dive and displayed for the first time at the British championships in Plymouth in February.[88]

At the British championships held in his old home pool in Plymouth, Daley won the individual 10 metre 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.[89]

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.[90] Overall, throughout the years' DWS meets, in the 10m 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 synchronised 3m springboard at both Windsor and 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 metre platform and once from the 3 metre springboard, Gallantree diving once from the platform and twice from the springboard).[91] 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.[92]

2016

For the 2016 season Daley was paired with Daniel Goodfellow for the 10 metre mens' platform synchro competition, with a view to competing in the Rio Olympic Games in this discipline.

At the British National Diving Cup, the British Championships, held in January, Daley won gold in the individual 10 metre platform competition with 545.80 points, ahead of Matty Lee on 461.00 and Dan Goodfellow on 419.35 points.[93] In the synchronised 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.[94]

Daley and Goodfellow got bronze at the 2016 FINA Diving World Cup,[95] earning them a spot in the 10 m synchro competition at the Olympic Games.[96]

At the 2016 FINA Diving World Series, which consisted of four competitions, Daley earned a total of six medals. In the synchro event, he and Goodfellow medaled 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.[97]

Competitive history

Competition 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Olympic Games, 10 m 7th 3rd
Olympic Games, 10 m (synchro) 8th† 4th@
Summer Youth Olympics, 3m 9th
FINA World Championships, 10 m 1st 5th 6th 3rd
FINA World Championships, 10 m (synchro) 9th§ 6th@
FINA World Championships, team event 1st&
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
European Championships, 10 m 1st 1st 2nd
European Championships, 10 m (synchro) 6th† 4th%
Commonwealth Games, 10 m 1st 1st
Commonwealth Games, 10 m (synchro) 1st§ 2nd%
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
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, Doha, Qatar, 10 m 6th
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
FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m (synchro) 2nd@ 3rd=
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
FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, Russia, 10 m (synchro) 3rd=
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, London, UK 10 m 5th 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 World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 10 m 2nd 3rd
FINA Diving World Series, Windsor, Ontario, Canada mixed 3 m springboard 3rd* 2nd=
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
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
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

Personal life

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."[98][99] Daley said that it had been a tough decision to speak out about his private life. He said: "I'd never felt the feeling of love, it happened so quickly, I was completely overwhelmed by it to the point I can't get him out of my head all the time."[100] His partner is American film screenwriter, director and producer Dustin Lance Black. They live together in London.[101]

In 2014, Daley was number 3 on the World Pride Power list.[102] Daley has made some conflicting statements in regards to his sexual orientation. After his YouTube video appearance he stated, "I am a gay man now".[103] But later, when asked by The Guardian, in a July 2015 interview, if he was bisexual, 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."[104] When asked about his coming to terms with his same-sex attraction and his relationship with Black, he said that while he has always been attracted to guys, and that "it has always been in the back of my head... I’d never had feelings for a person along those lines. I’d been in relationships with girls where I’d had sexual feelings, but it became so much more intense when I met Lance."[105]

On 1 October 2015, it was announced in The Times that Daley and Black were engaged. The announcement, in the Births, Marriages and Deaths section read: "The engagement is announced between Tom, son of Robert and Debra Daley of Plymouth, and Lance, son of Jeff Bisch of Philadelphia and Anne Bisch of Lake Providence."[106][107][108]

Views

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.[109]

Media activities

Daley has been very active in media. His annual calendars have proven very popular with the public.

Daley is also very active through his blogs appearing on his YouTube channel for a number of years. Besides famously using his YouTube platform to come out with his same-sex relationship with American screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, he has later on appeared with Black in a number of other videos as well. Also on YouTube, he keeps regular short video blogs talking about his take on various subjects. Popular series include "Tom Dives Into..." in 2015 and "The Daley Diary" in 2016.

Honours and awards

Year Award Category Result
2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Sports Personality of the Year Nominated
2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Sports Personality of the Year Won
2007 The Herald Awards Sports Personality of the Year Won
2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Sports Personality of the Year Nominated
2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Sports Personality of the Year Nominated
2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Sports Personality of the Year Won
2009 Daily Telegraph/Aviva School Sport Matters Awards Student of the Year (Male) Won
2009 The Herald Awards Sports Personality of the Year Won
2010 BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards Best Sports Star Won
2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Sports Personality of the Year Nominated
2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Sports Personality of the Year Won
2010 Laureus World Sports Awards Breakthrough of the Year Nominated
2011 BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards Best Young Sports Star Won
2012 BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards Best British Sports Star Won
2012 BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards Male Hottie of the Year Won
2012 The Herald Awards Sports Personality of the Year Won
2013 UK Kids Choice Awards Favourite UK Sports Star Won

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