DALEY Thomas

Olympic Games

Year	Location	10m Platform	10m Synchro M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	18th (403.25)	3rd (444.45)
2012	London, GBR	3rd (556.95)	4th (454.65)
2008	Beijing, CHN	7th (463.55)	8th (408.48)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	3m Springboard
2010	Singapore, SIN	9th (514.35)

World Championships

Year	Location	10m Platform	3m Synchro X	10m Synchro M	Team
2019	Gwangju, KOR	7th (470.35)	4th (298.47)	3rd (425.91)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	1st (590.95)	2nd (308.04)	4th (418.02)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	3rd (537.95)	-	-	1st (434.65)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	6th (470.60)	-	-	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	5th (505.10)	-	6th (407.46)	-
2009	Rome, ITA	1st (539.85)	-	9th (390.96)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	10m Platform	10m Synchro M
2020	Budapest, HUN	2nd (533.30)	1st (477.57)

World Cup

Year	Location	10m Platform	10m Synchro M
2021	Tokyo, JPN	1st (541.70)	1st (453.60)

World Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	10m Platform	3m Synchro	10m Synchro
2020	1 x 5th	1 x 2nd	-
2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 3 x 3rd	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2018	1 x 9th	4 x 2nd	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th
2017	1 x 2nd, 3 x 3rd	1 x 3rd, 2 x 4th, 1 x 5th	1 x 3rd, 2 x 4th

World Series & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	10m Platform	World Series	Montreal, QC, CAN	550.05
1	2019	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	London, GBR	322.89
1	2019	Synchronised 10m Platform	World Series	London, GBR	477.90
2	2020	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	Montreal, QC, CAN	309.57
2	2019	10m Platform	World Series	Sagamihara, JPN	579.85
2	2019	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	Montreal, QC, CAN	314.10
2	2019	Synchronised 10m Platform	World Series	Montreal, QC, CAN	412.20
2	2018	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	Kazan, RUS	317.70
2	2018	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	Montreal, QC, CAN	300.84
2	2018	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	Fuji, JPN	299.25
2	2018	Synchronised 3m Springboard	World Series	Beijing, CHN	308.67
2	2017	10m Platform	World Series	Guangzhou, CHN	531.45

Legend
M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Tom, Dales (sport-magazine.co.uk, 23 Apr 2015)

Yoga, meditation, knitting, crocheting. (Instagram profile, 22 Feb 2021; bbc.co.uk, 16 Jul 2020)

Athlete

Husband Dustin Lance Black, son Robert [2018]

English

Dive London [Great Britain]

Jane Figueiredo [personal], from 2014

His husband Dustin Lance Black is a screenwriter, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2008 film 'Milk'. (bbc.co.uk, 01 Oct 2015; bbc.co.uk, 14 Jul 2017)

He competed in judo as a junior and represented the county of Devon in England. (theguardian.com, 18 Jul 2015)

2007 for Great Britain (sportcentric.com, 04 May 2007)

In April 2018 he suffered with injuries to both shins. He was forced to wear a knee-high walking boot on his left leg between training sessions to alleviate the pain. He also sprained three ribs while training in the same month. (fina.org, 30 Apr 2018)

A hip injury forced him to pull out of the individual 10m competition at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Despite the injury he still won a gold medal in the synchronised 10m with Dan Goodfellow. (bbc.co.uk, 21 Oct 2018)

He sustained a concussion during training in March 2018. He was unable to swim for almost a week and was not cleared to compete until just before the start of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (bbc.com, 04 Apr 2018; mirror.co.uk, 04 Apr 2018)

He underwent minor hip surgery in May 2017 and missed the British Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland, the following month. He returned to competition at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (bbc.co.uk, 05 May 2017, 31 May 2017; theguardian.com, 23 Jul 2017)

In March 2013 he pulled out of a Grand Prix event in Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States of America, due to an elbow injury he suffered while training. (sportinglife.com, 09 May 2013)

In August 2010 he injured his triceps muscle while competing in the 10m synchronised platform at the 2010 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The injury forced him to withdraw from both the 10m synchronised and individual events, and also meant he was unable to compete in the 10m platform event at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. (FINA Aquatics World Magazine, 23 Oct 2010; tomdaley.tv, 17 Feb 2012)

He began diving at age seven at his local club in Plymouth, England. (Facebook page, 04 Apr 2018)

He had swimming lessons but found them boring and wanted more of a challenge. He saw people diving and decided that was the sport for him. (olympics.org.uk, 07 Jan 2008; Independent, 09 Dec 2007)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (independent.co.uk, 26 Jun 2019)

His late father Rob. (theguardian.com, 18 Jul 2015)

"You have to want it more than anything. You have to be willing to miss out on everything. It has to be the biggest thing in your life." (theguardian.com, 18 Jul 2015)

In 2017 he was presented with the International Swimming Federation [FINA] Best Male Diver Award. (fina.org, 02 Dec 2017)

He was named England's Amateur Swimming Association [ASA] 2015 Diving Performance Athlete of the Year. (swimswam.com, 16 Nov 2015)

He was named British Swimming's 2015 Athlete of the Year. He was also named Diver of the Year by British Swimming in 2015 and 2017. (swimswam.com, 03 Oct 2015; britishswimming.org, 04 Nov 2017)

The European Swimming Federation [LEN] named him the 2009, 2015 and 2017 Athlete of the Year in the diving category. (swimswam.com, 22 Jan 2018)

He was named as the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2007, 2009 and 2010. (bbc.co.uk, 07 Nov 2011)