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Personal information
Surname: Thomas Robert Daley
Nickname (s): Tom
Nationality: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Discipline (s) : Tower / synchronized jumping
Society: Plymouth Diving Club
Birthday: May 21, 1994
Place of birth: Plymouth
Size: 178 cm
Weight: 74 kg
Daley at the age of 14 for Team GB in Beijing, Olympia 2008
In jumping position ( handstand ) on the 10-meter platform of the London Aquatics Center , August 2016

Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley (born May 21, 1994 in Plymouth , England ) is a British diver specializing in the 10 m category.

At the 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome , he won the 10-meter high diving, making history the youngest world champion. He has already represented his home country in numerous international competitions, including three times at the Olympic Games ( 2008 , 2012 , 2016 ).

Career

Olympics to Beijing 2008

Daley began diving at the age of seven and competed in national and international competitions at a very young age. After a very short time, the Olympic trainer Andy Banks took him under his wing and accompanied the talented elementary school student until after his second Olympic participation in London in 2012. He jumped from the 10-meter platform for the first time at the age of nine (usually top athletes start too thus only from about 14-16 years). In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was the best of the British class in all categories (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard, diving tower). In June 2004, one month after his 10th birthday, he won his first national junior title at the British Under-18 Championship on the diving platform, making him the youngest winner in this category. He was considered a medal contender for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and received financial support from the British government's athlete development program. This enabled him to compete in international competitions from now on - always accompanied by his father and a steadily growing media interest. In 2005 he competed as a guest at the Australian Elite Junior Nationals and was first on the diving platform and second on the 3-meter springboard in the competition for 14 to 15 year olds. In the same year he also competed in this age group at the Aachen Junior International Event, where he came second on the diving platform and third on the 3-meter springboard. In 2006 he was the British under-18 champion on both the diving platform and the 3-meter springboard. On the 10-meter diving platform, he finished third at the British Adult Championships in 2006 and second the following year. Since he was one of the British Olympic hopes, he was accompanied by the BBC television series Olympic Dreams from 2004 .

In January 2007, at the age of 12, Daley was granted special permission to attend the Australian Youth Olympic Festival. Usually the participants here have to be at least 15 years old. Despite a persistent thumb injury, Daley managed to win a silver medal with Callum Johnstone in the final of synchronized jumping from the 10m tower. In the same year he won the adult title on the diving platform at the ASA national championships, an all-English competition, and began to take part in FINA competitions. Also in 2007 Daley received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year / Young Personality Award.

In January 2008, he won the 10-meter diving tower category at the British Championships and became the youngest British winner of the 10-meter title. With his new partner, Blake Aldridge , who is twelve years his senior , he also won the 10-meter synchronized title on the diving platform. Two weeks later he won his first medals at the FINA level at the Grand Prix in Madrid, once bronze in the individual competition on the diving platform and silver in synchronized jumping.

This was followed by winning the bronze medal in synchronized diving at the FINA Diving World Cup in China's Beijing in February 2008. The score of Daley and Aldridge was a British record and Daley became the youngest male medalist of all time in an international competition. In the individual competition he was seventh. Such high placements in the biennial World Cup also go hand in hand with qualification for the following Olympic Games in the Olympic year . The two-time qualification (10-meter individual and synchronized jumping) of the thirteen-year-old Daley was accepted by the Olympic Committee, although the age of participation is otherwise set at at least 16 years. At the time of his first competition jump from the Olympic 10-meter platform in Beijing, he was 14 years and 81 days old. At first it was said that he was the youngest male Olympic participant in Great Britain of all time, but it turned out that 48 years earlier the rower Ken Lester, who took part in the 1960 Olympic Games , was 13 years and 144 days at that time was younger. Daley remains by far the youngest Olympic participant in his two disciplines.

In March 2008, Daley became the youngest athlete to win gold at the 2008 European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven . Before that, Scottish swimmer Ian Black was the youngest medalist. He won European gold in 1958 at the age of 17.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in summer 2008, Daley and his partner Blake Aldridge took 8th and last place in synchronized jumping. Aldridge blamed the media hype surrounding Daley for the poor performance , which made him nervous. He and Daley also quarreled as Aldridge had spoken to his mother on the phone between the rounds. In the individual competition, Daley took 7th place.

Olympics to London 2012

In September 2008 he was fourth in the FINA world rankings for men in the 10-meter diving platform.

In February 2009 he defended his first place in the 10-meter high diving at the British Championships and achieved a personal best with 517.55 points, 133.45 points ahead of the runner-up. However, he was unable to defend his title in 10-meter synchronized jumping because his jumping partner Blake Aldridge had been injured in a fight in a nightclub a few days earlier. In March 2009 he improved his personal best to 540.70 points with third place at the Diving World Series event in Changzhou (China). The following month he finished second at the next World Series event in Sheffield (England) and was able to beat the previous number of points again with 540.85 points.

After the Aldridge nightclub incident and the resulting failure at the British Championships, Daley's father asked for another jump partner for his son. In April 2009, Max Brick, who was only two years older, became his new jump partner. The new duo won the silver medal in the 10 m synchronized jumping at the FINA Grand Prix on May 8, 2009 in Fort Lauderdale. Daley won the individual jumping with a new personal best of 554.90 points, including a top score of 7 × 10 points in one of his jumps.

Olympic Victory Parade 2012

From 2011 Daley jumped in 10-m synchronized competitions together with tower world champion Peter Waterfield . The duo should jump for medals together at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . After Daley's father lost his multi-year battle with cancer in May 2011, Daley continued his training, high school and driver's license preparations, but his trainer worked with him, the directors and sports psychologists of the British squad, a new, appropriately adapted training plan. At the World Championships in Shanghai in mid-July 2011 , Daley and Waterfield finished sixth. In the individual competition from the tower, Daley was fifth. At the grand opening of the London Aquatics Center on July 27, 2011 (exactly one year the start of the Olympic Games in London), Daley, the most successful figurehead of the British squad, was asked to inaugurate the new diving platform. This act consisted of a single jump from the 10-meter platform in front of a large audience and the international press.

The high media interest and the parallel increasing sponsorship interest in Tom Daley has, among other things, the consequence that he is no longer financed by the Olympic Sports Confederation, which in turn makes him dependent on his constant media presence. To finance his training, fan articles such as photo calendars and autograph cards were increasingly appearing, advertising partnerships and regular interview invitations from magazines, radio, television and online press developed. In the run-up to the Olympic Games, in addition to his sporting and school commitments, he was also increasingly in demand by the British advertising industry and, like all athletes, received his own car from the main Olympic sponsor Mini as a promotion even before he could take his first driving lessons.

At the Olympic Games in London, Daley and Waterfield just missed a medal with fourth place. In a high-class individual final from the tower, Daley led the competition before the last jump, but then had to admit defeat to the US Olympic champion David Boudia (568.65 points) and the Chinese Qiu Bo (566.85) and won with 556, 95 points the bronze medal. At every high diving competition, the audience is informed in advance that flash photography is prohibited for safety reasons. Daley's popularity in his home country, which had grown since the beginning of his career, led to a particularly large number of spectators at the Games in London, many of whom apparently did not understand the dangers of the sport. At Daley's first jump in the 10-meter individual final , a thunderstorm of flashlights broke out. The screw elements of his first jump (DD 3,6) led to the view in the direction of the audience, due to the induced blinking Daley lost orientation halfway in the air. Although he luckily landed unharmed and was still able to secure 75.6 points (5 × 7.0; 2 × 7.5) for the jump, his trainer successfully sued for a repetition of the jump, and the audience was once again at the risk of flashing lights noted for the diver. His second attempt went without any problems and earned him a total of 91.80 points with individual scores between 8.0 and 9.0 (received 3 × 8.5). The difference of more than 15 points to his first rating was linked to the fear that the second chance could be interpreted as an unfair advantage for him in retrospect and put his top athletic performance into the background. Ultimately, however, Daley separated from fourth place by almost 30 points, so he would have secured the bronze medal even without his initial second chance. It remained the only incident of the tournament.

Olympics to Rio 2016

Despite the successful repetition, Daley had such bad memories of the event that even after intensive work with the sports psychologists of the squad, he was no longer able to perform the jump without fear. After the successful Olympic Games in 2012, Daley was able to celebrate his 18th birthday and enjoy newly discovered free time for a while. Afterwards, he had difficulty finding his way back to the tough everyday training routine. He reduced his training effort, initially concentrated on his school leaving exams in spring 2013 and agreed in early 2013 to participate in the BBC television show Splash! To act as mentor / trainer for the prominent participants in the high diving television competition. In addition to comedian Jo Brand, Daley's long-time coach Andy Banks and his former mentor Leon Taylor (himself a former Olympic diver) were hired as judges for the show .

In March 2013, Daley took a month off from training, which had already been cut back, and during these weeks met the American Dustin Lance Black . The relationship with the hard-working political activist and filmmaker (won an Oscar in 2009 for his screenplay for Milk ) gave Daley the motivation to take up his high-performance sport again. In early summer he moved out of his parents' house and moved to their own apartment in London with Black . There he resumed his training in the Olympic water sports center - after graduating from school, for the first time full-time and with a new sponsorship partnership with Adidas . He struggled with serious injuries all year long. In the World Cup 2013 in Spanish Barcelona have now cracked the fourth time had triceps (a potentially career-ending injury) by the attending sports physicians repeatedly treated and Daley repeatedly be supplied with painkillers injections. He finally reached the final and there came sixth. By the end of the year, he had recovered from the injury and resumed training. When he finally went public with his love affair in December 2013, he received such a wave of recognition and support from the press, fellow athletes and spectators in his home country and many other countries around the world that, contrary to all fears, he also received the essentials for practicing his sport Sponsors were retained. In the same week, the BBC sports show Splash! and Daley's mentorship officially extended for another season.

At the beginning of 2014, he parted ways with Andy Banks, who had accompanied him as a coach since the beginning of his career as a seven-year-old, for his holistic new beginning as a full-time athlete in London. The director of the British water sports team hired the experienced trainer Jane Figueiredo for the water jump team in spring 2014. But even Figueiredo could not get Daley's fear of the screw jump under control far enough to rise to the top of his field again. Since such a screw combination with this or a similar level of difficulty (3.6) is required in every international competition, he instead developed a completely new, never before presented jump combination based on a template from the Cirque just 18 months before the following Olympic Games in 2016 you Soleil . The jump (3,5 gehechtete Salti (with straight legs), then a screw) received the nickname in the following competitions fireworks ( Firework ).

After initial failures with the Firework screw jump in the course of the FINA Diving World Series, he was able to build on his old successes in the summer of 2014 with a gold medal in high diving at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and a silver medal at the European Championships in Berlin . He also got a new dubbing partner in James Denny , with whom he won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games after only seven days of joint training and achieved a good fourth place at the European Championships. At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan ( Russia ), Daley took third place in the individual competition from the 10-meter tower and won the team combination competition together with Rebecca Gallantree . Thanks to his individual performance, he already qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games ( Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) in this category. Such an early Olympic qualification means considerable relief for the athletes in the following Olympic year.

Since October 2015 Daley has been jumping in 10 m synchronized competitions with a new partner, Daniel Goodfellow , with whom he won the bronze medal at the FINA World Cup in Diving in 2016 in February 2016 and was thus able to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in the synchronized category . At the summer games in Rio, Daley and Goodfellow also won the bronze medal in this category . In the 10-meter individual competition , Daley reached the semi-finals with outstanding jumping performances in the preliminary round as the first in the ranking list, but was then surprisingly eliminated. It was the first (and so far only) international competition of his career in which he could not at least make it into the final.

By October 2016, Daley's collection consisted of 160 medals and awards.

Olympics until Tokyo 2020

In July 2017, Daley won the world diving title at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest for the first time since his 2009 World Cup success. His overall rating (in the final) of 590.95 points was a personal record and not only prevailed against the particularly tough Chinese competition in this competition (bronze was awarded to the winner of the 2016 Olympic Games, Chen Aisen , with 585.25 points ; Third was compatriot Jang Yian with 565.15 points; all other finalists were more than 100 points worse than Daley), but also exceeded the number of points for which Aisen had been rewarded with Olympic gold last year (585.30). In synchronized jumping, Daley and Goodfellow came fourth.

After winning his fourth Commonwealth gold medal in April 2018 (10 m synchronous), Daley had to withdraw his participation in the individual competition at short notice. Serious back and hip problems made defending his title impossible. As a result, he announced that after 15 years of continuous training, he would take a break from competition until the end of the year and recover from various health problems (since the beginning of the year he had suffered from hypothermia, a concussion, a shin and a severe hip injury fight). As a result, the reigning World and Commonwealth Champion missed the 2018 FINA World Cup in Wuhan (China) and the European Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, in August, where Ross Haslam and Grace Reid competed in the mixed synchronized jumping of 3 meters and secured silver.

In the early summer of 2018, Daley also completely finished his training (previously six hours of pure training time six days a week) and went to Los Angeles to have time for his son, who was born in June. In the first few months of his parental leave, he limited himself to simple home workouts , provided that time and strength allowed this. Even during his break he officially remained part of the Olympic squad ( Team GB ), where he has long since moved from the youngest to the oldest member. From August he started doing sports again, a few weeks later the family moved back to England and Daley began regular training under Jane Figueiredo again on September 10, in order to prepare as intensively as possible for the Olympics in the remaining 18 months (during Black worked from home for the time being and took on most of the upbringing of their son). Just a few months later, Daley had brought his training level back to a competitive level and returned to national and international competitions. Participation in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo had been planned for a long time, but in addition to his level of training, it was primarily dependent on his physical / health condition at the time of the competition.

On July 15, 2019, Daley and his jumping partner Matty Lee secured a bronze medal at the 2019 World Swimming Championships in Gwangju ( South Korea ). This enabled them to qualify for participation in the 2020 Olympic Games in their category (10-meter synchronized jumping) at an early stage.

Private

Tom Daley grew up as the eldest son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley with his brothers William and Ben in Plymouth ( Devon ) in south-west England , after graduating from school in 2013 he moved to London to change coach. In addition to his native English , he also speaks Spanish .

Since Daley's first major competitive success at the age of ten, his life has been public. Between 2005 and 2009 he was followed at regular intervals by a sports reporting team from the BBC for long-term training documentation of the country's youngest athletic talents. He has been known in Great Britain at least since his qualification as the youngest British participant in the Olympic Games and shortly afterwards the title of the youngest world diving champion of all time. After his first Olympic Games at the age of just 14, he was teased at his school (mainly because of the ultra- short and tight swimming trunks - budgie smugglers - necessary for jumping from great heights ) that his parents eventually let him change schools. The death of his father from a brain tumor on May 27, 2011 after a long illness was also repeatedly taken up internationally on the topic and in interviews by sports commentators and newspaper journalists. After a few years in the media and a photography elective in high school, Daley finally took the reporting into his own hands and has since been on various social media, but especially on YouTube , where he lets sports-loving viewers participate in his training sessions, explains techniques, and recipes or grant them a private view of the Olympic Village or other areas of sports life that are otherwise inaccessible to the public.

His father's long-standing cancer treatment, who after his first diagnosis in 2006 survived two malignant tumors through successful operations and chemotherapy and finally succumbed to his third major brain tumor in 2011, brought Daley's family into contact with various cancer aid foundations. Robert Daley had accompanied his son to every single national and international competition until 2010. In 2010, the BBC had a multi-year long-term documentary about Tom Daley's career to date under the heading of The Diver and His Dad ( The diver and his dad asked). The funeral, which was well documented by the national press and attended by almost 400 participating fans unknown to the family, took the family as an opportunity to ask for donations for three different institutions in advance instead of flower arrangements: St Luke's Hospice , the aid organization Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumor Trust. Tom Daley had already assumed patronage for the latter foundation years earlier.

On December 2, 2013, 19-year-old Daley announced in a YouTube video that he had fallen in love with a man. Shortly before, when asked by a journalist how he felt about his growing gay fan base, he had reacted with ostentatious indifference. In a newspaper article, however, this was not only interpreted as tolerance, but also misunderstood as a clarification that Daley himself was not gay. This false statement led to a perceived need for clarification, although teammates, coaches and friends initially clearly advised him against his planned step. A coming-out on a pinnacle of his athletic career could have the promising talented athletes costs career as training, travel and material costs the recruitment of sponsors and this often require a certain image. In diving, however, there is no longer such strong homophobia as in many other sports, in 2008 the Australian Matthew Mitcham became the first openly gay Olympic champion in Daley's main category, the 10-meter platform, which, however, still caused a great international stir would have. At those Olympic Games there were only 8 openly lesbian and 2 openly gay athletes among well over 10,000 participants (the other was Mitcham's compatriot Mathew Helm , also a diver ); seven of them brought home medals. The fear of becoming “the gay athlete” through his outing was not confirmed; the media focus remains on his sporting success, his private life was and is only occasionally mentioned in sports reporting. Daley's video has now been viewed 12.5 million times.

Husband D. Lance Black ; Human Rights Campaign National Dinner 2012

The starting point for his public coming out was the beginning of his serious love affair with Dustin Lance Black in spring 2013. The Texan filmmaker and activist received the Oscar in 2009 for his screenplay for Milk . In his YouTube vlogs , Daley has long been offering entertaining insights into the couple's everyday private life in addition to sports and nutrition topics and is increasingly being perceived internationally as a role model in a not only sporting sense. At the beginning of October 2015, the two announced their engagement in the traditional way via a small advertisement in the Times , and have been married since May 6, 2017. Their first child, a son, was born on June 27, 2018. It was named after Daley's late father, Robert.

In and outside of his work, Dustin Lance Black is vocal politically for the rights of minorities and the elimination of prejudices about and within the LGBT community. He campaigns against many positions of the Trump administration and, in particular, advocates better dealing with Muslims in his home country, the USA. This clear political commitment also led Daley to increasingly take a public position and, if possible, accompany Black to speeches in front of human rights organizations and other occasions. In 2014, ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, he was one of 200 British (including Scottish) public figures who wrote an open letter in the Guardian urging Scottish voters to vote to remain in the UK. Shortly before the biennial meeting of the representatives of all Commonwealth nations (2018 in London), he used the media attention in connection with his gold medal win at the 2018 Commonwealth Games to draw attention to the 37 Commonwealth countries in which homosexuality is still considered Criminal act is punished. Just a few days later, Prime Minister Theresa May responded by admitting that she “deeply regrets” Britain's historical legacy of anti-gay laws across the Commonwealth (the former British Empire). Even Foreign Minister Johnson responded to Daley's comment in the Newsbeat interview ( BBC Radio 1 ) to make with the promise that the unchanged issues in the coming meeting with the heads of state of these countries on the subject. The UNHCHR ( United Nations ) has been calling on the countries mentioned for years to better protect the LGBT minorities within their borders or to stop persecuting them.

In the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, Daley's first autobiography was published with the title My Story , in which he traces his career up to this point in time (several unofficial biographies by other authors had already appeared about him). Since then he has used part of his free time to write two more books in which he presents simple recipes and workouts for the small budget (no equipment or studio registration required) and every skill level with the help of professional photographs: “Someone like my mum can do all of these things and all of these workouts. And I think that's what I tried to aim this book more towards: someone that has never worked out before can do this book. Someone that has never cooked before in their life can cook the recipies from this book. ”He let his YouTube audience choose the cover of the second book Tom's Daily Goals (2018) from several suggestions.

Medals and competition placements

High diving : 10 meter platformArtistic diving : 3 meter diving board
competition Starting for year place category medal placement Score
(winner)
Remarks
Olympic games United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) - 7th 463.55
(537.95)
youngest participant (and finalist) with just 14 years
2012 United KingdomUnited KingdomLondonEnglandEngland
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 556.95
(568.65)
up to the fifth jump in first place, only overtaken by David Boudia and Qiu Bo on the sixth and last jump (566.85 points); new personal best (previously 554.90 in Grand Prix 2009) United StatesUnited StatesChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
2016 BrazilBrazilRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro (State)Rio de Janeiro (State)
Individual diving (men) - 18th -
(585.30)
clear first place in the qualifying round with the highest partial score in qualification and semifinals (103.60 for the 4th jump, 571.85 points in total), then surprisingly last place in the semifinals with only 403.25 points
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 444.45
(496.98)
with Daniel Goodfellow
World Championship United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2009 ItalyItaly
Rome
Individual diving (men) gold 1 539.85
(see above)
youngest world champion (and medalist) of all time
Diving synchronized (men) - 9 390.36
(482.58)
with Max Brick
2011 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Shanghai
Diving synchronized (men) - 6th 407.46
(480.03)
with Peter Waterfield
Individual diving (men) - 5 505.10
(585.45)
2013 SpainSpainBarcelonaCataloniaCatalonia
Individual diving (men) - 6th 470.60
(581.00)
2015 RussiaRussiaKazanTatarstan RepublicRepublic of Tatarstan
Team event gold 1 434.65
(see above)
with Rebecca Gallantree
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 537.95
(587.00)
2017 HungaryHungary
Budapest
Individual diving (men) gold 1 590.95
(see above)
current personal best
Diving synchronized (men) - 4th 418.02
(498.48)
with Daniel Goodfellow
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) silver 2 308.04
(323.70)
with Grace Reid
FINA World Cup United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 446.07
(482.46)
with Blake Aldridge ; British Record; youngest ever male medalist in an international competition
2012 United KingdomUnited KingdomLondonEnglandEngland
Diving synchronized (men) - 7th 419.97
(481.29)
with Peter Waterfield
Individual diving (men) - 7th 480.40
(566.85)
2016 ( en ) BrazilBrazilRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro (State)Rio de Janeiro (State)
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 446.40
(456.00)
with Daniel Goodfellow
FINA World Series United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2008 United KingdomUnited KingdomSheffieldEnglandEngland
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
Diving synchronized (men) gold 1
()
2009 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Changzhou
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 540.70
()
new personal best (previously 517.55 in British Championship 2009)
United KingdomUnited KingdomSheffieldEnglandEngland
Individual diving (men) silver 2 540.85
()
new personal best (previously 540.70 in the previous World Series event in Changzhou 2009)
2011 ( en ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3
()
with Peter Waterfield
United KingdomUnited KingdomSheffieldEnglandEngland
Diving synchronized (men) gold 1
()
with Peter Waterfield
MexicoMexicoGuanajuatoGuanajuato
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
2012 ( en ) United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab EmiratesDubaiDubaiDubai
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2
()
with Peter Waterfield
RussiaRussiaMoscowMoscow OblastMoscow Oblast
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
MexicoMexicoTijuanaBaja California
Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
MexicoMexicoTijuanaBaja California
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3
()
with Peter Waterfield
2013 ( en ) United KingdomUnited KingdomEdinburghScotlandScotland
Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
2014 ( en ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) bronze 3
()
MexicoMexicoMonterreyNuevo León
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
Completion of the WS as third overall (endowed with 15,000 USD prize money)
2015 ( en ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) - 7th -
(587.40)
fourth in the semi-finals with 446.35 points (two semi-final rounds, the three best each qualify for the final)
United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab EmiratesDubaiDubaiDubai
Individual diving (men) silver 2 578.25
(612.75)
new personal best (previously 565.05 at the European Championships 2012); two perfect jumps (7 × 10 points): in the semifinals (207B; DD 3.6; 108 points) and the final (407C; DD 3.2; 96 points)
RussiaRussiaKazanTatarstan RepublicRepublic of Tatarstan
Individual diving (men) - 5 523.20
(573.05)
United KingdomUnited KingdomLondonEnglandEngland
Individual diving (men) gold 1 554.05
(see above)
CanadaCanadaWindsorOntarioOntario
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 511.50
(567.25)
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) bronze 3 296.31
(323.70)
with Alicia Jane Blagg
MexicoMexicoMéridaYucatan
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 545.65
(570.05)
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) bronze 3 314.82
(331.53)
with Alicia Jane Blagg
2016 ( en ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) - 4th 506.70
(572.40)
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 420.15
(477.15)
with Daniel Goodfellow
United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab EmiratesDubaiDubaiDubai
Individual diving (men) - 7th -
(569.30)
fourth in the semifinals with 479.50 points
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2 428.91
(466.50)
with Daniel Goodfellow
CanadaCanadaWindsorOntarioOntario
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 536.50
(590.15)
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2 441.84
(482.01)
with Daniel Goodfellow
RussiaRussiaKazanTatarstan RepublicRepublic of Tatarstan
Individual diving (men) silver 2 554.60
(572.40)
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 442.59
(485.67)
with Daniel Goodfellow ; Completion of the WS as overall second (90 points, endowed with 20,000 USD prize money; overall first: China , 108 points) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
2017 ( en ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 520.35
(556.25)
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) - 4th 300.33
(323.10)
with Grace Reid
Diving synchronized (men) - 4th 409.59
(488.85)
with Daniel Goodfellow
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Guangzhou
Individual diving (men) silver 2 531.45
(601.15)
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) - 5 309.99
(333.00)
with Grace Reid
RussiaRussiaKazanTatarstan RepublicRepublic of Tatarstan
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 543.80
(580.60)
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 406.38
(462.57)
with Daniel Goodfellow ( Klein & Hausding silver with 408.54 points → difference only 2.16) GermanyGermany
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) bronze 3 299.82
(322.50)
with Grace Reid
CanadaCanadaWindsorOntarioOntario
Individual diving (men) bronze 3 493.80
(569.10)
Completion of the WS as third overall (58 points, endowed with 15,000 USD prize money; Overall first and second: Aisen Chen and Hao Yang , 72 and 62 points) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
Diving synchronized (men) - 4th 383.28
(477.84)
with Daniel Goodfellow
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) - 4th 308.79
(335.10)
with Grace Reid (bronze: Team Australia with 308.82 points → point difference only 0.03!) AustraliaAustralia 
2018 ( en ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Beijing
Individual diving (men) - 9 -
(539.55)
fifth in the semifinals with 416.80 points
Diving synchronized (men) bronze 3 400.68
(484.29)
with Daniel Goodfellow
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) silver 2 308.67
(331.50)
with Grace Reid
JapanJapan
Fuji
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) silver 2 299.25
(328.50)
with Grace Reid
Diving synchronized (men) - 4th 379.80
(449.91)
with Daniel Goodfellow
CanadaCanadaMontrealQuebecQuebec
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) silver 2 300.84
(325.20)
with Grace Reid
RussiaRussiaKazanTatarstan RepublicRepublic of Tatarstan
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) silver 2 317.70
(324.96)
with Grace Reid ; Point difference to gold after 4/5 jumps only 0.06; Completion of the World Series as world number one in this category: 4 × silver (24 points) = 96 points (Germany third place with 76 points)
FINA Grand Prix United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2008 Individual diving (men) bronze 3
()
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2
()
2009 United StatesUnited StatesFort LauderdaleUSA FloridaFlorida
Individual diving (men) gold 1 554.90
()
new personal best (previously 540.85 in the World Series event in Sheffield 2009), perfect result of 7 × 10 points in one of his jumps
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2
()
with Max Brick
European Championship United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2008 NetherlandsNetherlandsEindhovenNorth Brabant 
Individual diving (men) gold 1 491.95
(see above)
youngest participant in the competition; youngest ever European champion
2012 ( en ) NetherlandsNetherlandsEindhovenNorth Brabant 
Individual diving (men) gold 1 565.05
(see above)
new personal best (previously 556.95 at the 2012 Olympic Games)
Team event - 6th 327.90
(416.50)
with Rebecca Gallantree
2014 GermanyGermanyBerlinBerlinBerlin
Individual diving (men) silver 2 535.45
(586.10)
Diving synchronized (men) - 4th 403.74
(461.46)
with James Denny
2016 United KingdomUnited KingdomLondonEnglandEngland
Individual diving (men) gold 1 570.50
(see above)
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2 444.30
(445.26)
with Daniel Goodfellow ; Gold medal went to German competitors Sascha Klein and Patrick Hausding
Art jumping synchronized (mixed) gold 1 321.06
(see above)
with Grace Reid
Commonwealth Games EnglandEngland 2010 IndiaIndia
Delhi
Individual diving (men) gold 1 538.35
(see above)
Diving synchronized (men) gold 1 439.65
(see above)
with Max Brick
2014 United KingdomUnited KingdomGlasgowScotlandScotland
Individual diving (men) gold 1 516.55
(see above)
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2 399.36
(399.54)
with James Denny ; the gold medal went extremely tight to the Australian duo Matthew Mitcham ( Olympic champion 2008 ) and Domonic Bedggood
2018 AustraliaAustraliaGold CoastQueenslandQueensland
Diving synchronized (men) gold 1 405.81
(see above)
with Daniel Goodfellow
British championship - 2005 United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Individual diving (men) bronze 3
()
youngest participant and medalist (10 years old), inclusion in the Olympic squad, start of a four-year BBC documentary
2006 Individual diving (men) bronze 3
()
2007 Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
2008 Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
Diving synchronized (men) gold 1
()
2009 Individual diving (men) gold 1 517.55
(see above)
personal best; A record 133.45 points behind the runner-up
2011 Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
2012 Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
Diving synchronized (men) gold 1
()
2013 Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
English Championship (ASA National Championships) - 2007 United KingdomUnited KingdomEnglandEngland
Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
Australian Youth Olympic Festival (15-19 years) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2007 ( en ) AustraliaAustraliaSydneyNew South WalesNew South Wales
Diving synchronized (men) silver 2
()
with Callum Johnstone; Daley's participation as a twelve-year-old in this category is only possible with special permission
FINA Youth World Championship United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2008 GermanyGermanyAachenNorth Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
Individual jumping (men) silver 2
()
2012 AustraliaAustraliaAdelaideSouth AustraliaSouth Australia
Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
Art jumping synchronized (men) gold 1
()
Australian Elite Junior Nationals (14-15 years old) - 2005 AustraliaAustralia
Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
Guest participants by invitation
Individual jumping (men) silver 2
()
Aachen Junior International Event (14-15 years) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2005 GermanyGermanyAachenNorth Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Individual diving (men) silver 2
()
Individual jumping (men) bronze 3
()
British Junior Championship (<18 years) - 2004 United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
youngest winner in diving competition history; first national title
2006 Individual diving (men) gold 1
()
Individual jumping (men) gold 1
()

Further awards

  • 2005: BBC South West Youngster of the Year
  • 2006: In the top ten of the BBC at the Young Sports Personality of the Year Award
  • 2007: BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
  • 2007: Herald Award Sports Personality of the Year
  • 2008: In the top three of the BBC at the Young Sports Personality of the Year Award
  • 2009: BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
  • 2009: BBC South West Young Sports Personality of the Year
  • 2009: In the top ten of the BBC at the Sports Personality of the Year Award
  • 2009: Athlete-of-the-Year, LEN magazine award for diving enthusiasts
  • 2009: Sport Matters Awards ( Telegraph & Aviva School): Student of the Year (Male)
  • 2009: Herald Award Sports Personality of the Year
  • 2010: BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
  • 2010: In the top ten of the BBC at the Sports Personality of the Year Award
  • 2010: BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards: Best Sports Star
  • 2011: BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards: Best Young Sports Star
  • 2011: 3rd place Piotr Nurowski Prize
  • 2012: BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards: Best British Sports Star
  • 2012: BBC Teen Radio 1 Awards: Male Hottie of the Year
  • 2013: UK Kids Choice Awards : Favorite UK Sports Star
  • 2017: Diver of the Year ( FINA )
  • 2018: Europe's Diver of the Year (2017)

bibliography

Movies

  • 2010: Tom Daley: The Diver and His Dad - approx. 60 minutes, BBC One , EA October 12, 2010 - long-term documentary : shooting 2009–2010 with archive material from 2004; deals with training and especially the relationship with his main caregiver, father Rob Daley
  • 2012: Tom Daley: Diving for Britain - approx. 55 minutes, BBC One , EA July 23, 2012 - Long-term documentary : shooting started in 2010, ends just before London 2012 ; deals with training, high school graduation, sponsorship search, family and especially the dying process of his father
  • 2016: Tom Daley: Diving for Gold - approx. 50 minutes, ITV , EA July 30, 2016 - Long-term documentary : shooting started in London in 2012, ending immediately before Rio 2016 ; deals with training, family, coming-out and partnership

Web links

Commons : Tom Daley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tom Daley profiles , TeamGB.com. Retrieved August 25, 2014. 
  2. ^ "Tom Daley wins stunning diving gold at World Championships," Times Online July 21, 2009.
  3. ^ "Growing for Gold," Daily Mirror, October 3, 2005
  4. a b Teen Daley qualifies for Olympics. In: BBC News, February 24, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  5. "Daley, 13, close to clinching Olympic place" , sport.independent.co.uk , 7. January 2008
  6. “Tom Daley wins two diving medals in Madrid” , telegraph.co.uk , January 20, 2008.
  7. Alexi Mostrous: Tom Daley, 13, in at the Olympic deep end. In: The Times, February 25, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  8. Michael Brunton: 100 Olympic Athletes To Watch: 63. Tom Daley In: Time, July 24, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  9. "13 year-old Daley heads to Beijing" , The Guardian , February 24 of 2008.
  10. "Daley is not the youngest Olympian" , Daily Mail , February 25 of 2008.
  11. ^ "Youngster Daley claims Euro gold" - BBC.co.uk
  12. 'Daley to blame' says partner ( memento of August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) ITN , August 18, 2008.
  13. Fina Diving World Ranking
  14. ^ "Daley sets new PB as he takes British title" ( Memento of February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), The Herald ( Plymouth ) , February 7, 2009.
  15. "Olympic diver Blake Aldridge injured in nightclub attack" , Daily Telegraph , February 7th of 2009.
  16. ^ Daley takes World Series bronze , bbc.co.uk , March 28, 2009.
  17. ^ Daley secures World Series silver , bbc.co.uk , April 19, 2009.
  18. ^ Julian Shea: Daley's new diving partner named , BBC News Online. April 7, 2009. Retrieved April 8, 2009. 
  19. ^ Daley and Brick land silver in US . BBC News Online . May 8, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
  20. British teen Daley wins gold in men's platform at sandiegouniontribune.com, May 9, 2009 (English).
  21. Tom Daley reflected on a "really encouraging" competitive debut with Peter Waterfield. Retrieved March 30, 2011 .
  22. a b Tom Daley prepares for father's funeral. In: Evening Standard of June 8, 2011.
  23. Daley's opening ceremony: Tom takes first dive into Olympic pool ... without making a splash. He will hope to perform a similar dive to win Olympic gold in 12 months time. In: Daily Mail of July 28, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  24. Tom Daley: My calendar is now available to buy online !! © Ian Derry / Chilli Media / Rip Ten limited http://tinyurl.com/qbl33jl In: Instagram on August 2, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  25. Tom Daley wins Olympic diving bronze medal for Great Britain. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .
  26. Back 2½ Somersault 2½ twist –– 2½ back flips with 2½ twists
  27. Tom Daley: Turning my training regime on its head??‍♂️ • • • Part two of my training video drops tomorrow, don't miss it ? #HereToCreate. In: Instagram from April 19, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  28. Jim White: Tom Daley is the most significant British sportsman to come out. In: The Telegraph, December 2, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  29. Simon Hart: Tom Daley reveals he is in a relationship with a man in frank YouTube video from Olympic diver. In: The Telegraph, December 2, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  30. Jonathan McEvoy: Daley hooks up with Figueiredo in bid to win Olympic gold in Rio Games. In: Mail Online from January 23, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  31. Figueiredo: Daley work ethic amazing. BBC sports video from April 7, 2014. Accessed July 25, 2018.
  32. Forward 3½ Somersault in pike position with a (1) twist; Jump ID: 5172B; DD: 3.6
  33. ITV -Langzeit- documentary Tom Daley: Diving for Gold ; First broadcast on July 30, 2016. Film info page archived from the original on August 3, 2016. Retrieved on July 19, 2018.
  34. Tom Daley and James Denny win silver in Commonwealth Games men's synchronized 10m diving. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .
  35. Tom Daley and James Denny miss out on European diving medal. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .
  36. Victoria Ward: Tom Daley announces his engagement to long-term boyfriend. In: The Telegraph, October 1, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  37. TeamGB .com: Daley and Goodfellow capture dramatic bronze with last dive. August 8, 2016.
  38. a b Tom Daley: Husband VS Best Friend . October 8, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  39. Tom Daley Takes Break From Diving In: pyeongchang.olympicchannel.com of May 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  40. Tom Daley: World and Commonwealth champion to take a break for the remainder of 2018 In: BBC Sport, May 8, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  41. Tom Daley: “First day back at training as a DAD! ? “ In: Instagram. Uploaded September 10, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  42. Tom Daley takes break from diving In: Olympic Channel, May 8, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  43. Daley to take competitive break from diving for rest of 2018 In: TeamGB.com , official news feed from May 8, 2018. Accessed July 5, 2018.
  44. Instagram post by trainer Jane Figuerido on July 15, 2019. Accessed July 15, 2019.
  45. ^ Team Daley cheer on Tom . In: Plymouth Herald , August 11, 2008. Archived from the original on November 25, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2018. 
  46. morsmal morsmål: Bilingual Celebrities . October 6, 2012. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  47. Follow Britain's Olympic hopefuls in the second series of BBC One's documentary Olympic Dreams In: BBC Press Office, June 26, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  48. Tom Daley: timeline of the teenage diving star In: BBC News, October 13, 2010. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  49. Ben Quinn: Tom Daley's father dies of cancer . In: The Guardian , May 28, 2011. 
  50. Tom Daley's father Rob loses battle with cancer , BBC Sport. May 28, 2011. 
  51. Tom Daley mourn's father Rob at funeral in Plymouth . In: BBC News , June 8, 2011. 
  52. a b Tom Daley: Something I want to say… Video on YouTube
  53. ^ High diver Tom Daley on sueddeutsche.de from December 2, 2013
  54. Matt Slater: Tom Daley's 'brave' announcement should not matter - but it does In: BBC Sport, December 2, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  55. Jim Buzinski: In Beijing Olympics, only 10 openly gay athletes In: OutSports of August 5, 2008. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved on July 5, 2018.
  56. Ryan Quinn: Gay Medal Count In: OutSports, August 23, 2008. Archived from the original on August 25, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  57. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tom-daley-boyfriend-dustin-lance-3337990
  58. Tom Daley And Boyfriend Dustin Lance Black Have The Look Of Love In London Read more at https://web.archive.org/web/20140427223726/http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/145447/Tom-Daley- And-Boyfriend-Dustin-Lance-Black-Have-The-Look-Of-Love-In-London # jIFMbfqD8QFQgR45.99 ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  59. Nadia Khomami: Tom Daley announces engagement to film-maker Dustin Lance Black . In: theguardian.com . October 1, 2015. Accessed October 12, 2015.
  60. Instagram post by Tom Daley • May 8, 2017 at 8:41 am. Retrieved May 11, 2017 (eng).
  61. “A very happy #ValentinesDay from ours to yours. ?‍?‍? ”- Black and Daley's first Instagram posts with their son's ultrasound, published February 14, 2018. Accessed July 5, 2018.
  62. “• 27/06/18 • Welcome to the world our precious little Robbie Ray Black-Daley ❤️ The most magical moment of my life. The amount of love and joy you have brought into our life is immeasurable. " “[…] Thank you for bringing so much love and light with you. And thank you to those who helped make our dream of having a family into this wonderful reality. " - Posts by Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black about the birth of their son on June 27, 2018, published on June 30, 2018 along with first photos of the young family. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  63. Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black Welcome 'Precious' Baby Boy - and His Name Holds Special Meaning In: MSN -News Denmark July 1, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  64. Sandy Thin: Diver Tom Daley makes plea for 37 Commonwealth nations to relax anti-gay laws. In: CNN April 13, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  65. Martha Kelna: Tom Daley speaks out on anti-gay laws in Commonwealth nations after winning gold. - Video on Guardian website dated April 13, 2018. Accessed June 5, 2018.
  66. Pippa Crerar: Theresa May says she deeply regrets Britain's legacy of anti-gay laws. In: The Guardian of April 17, 2018.
  67. Jim Connolly: Boris Johnson promises Tom Daley he'll raise LGBT rights with Commonwealth. In: BBC News of April 18, 2018.
  68. ^ Charles Radcliffe: Gay rights debate unfolds at the UN. - Video access on the official YouTube channel of UNHCHR on March 22, 2013.
  69. Ban Ki-moon : Ban Ki-moon: Struggle for LGBT right one of the great, neglected human rights challenges of our time - video message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations on YouTube from April 15, 2013.
  70. ^ A History of LGBT rights at the UN. - Video view of the UN Human Rights Council on YouTube on December 9, 2013.
  71. ^ UN Free & Equal: The Lesson. - Video view of the UN Human Rights Council on YouTube on March 2, 2017.
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  73. a b Tom Daley: Tom's Daily Plan . Hardback edition. First published on December 29, 2016. ISBN 978-0-008-21229-2
  74. a b Tom Daley: Tom's Daily Goals . Hardback edition. First published on August 20, 2018. ISBN 978-0-008-28137-3
  75. ^ Babies, Books and Brides | #AskTD Uploaded to Tom Daley's YouTube channel on May 30, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  76. BBC honors South West sports stars , BBC.co.uk. December 5, 2005. Retrieved February 12, 2007. 
  77. BBC honors South West sports stars ( Memento from October 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at bbc.co.uk, December 5, 2005.
  78. Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award wins for One Direction and Tom Daley. In: ATV Today, March 24, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  79. Male Diver of the Year (2017). Instagram post by @ FINA 1908; Reposted by @TomDaley on December 5, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  80. Male Diver of the Year Award. Getty Images news photo and report dated August 9, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.