1. Daniel Goodfellow is a two-time Commonwealth Games champion, a World champion in the team event in 2024 and an Olympic bronze medalist in the synchronised event in 2016.
23 Facts About Daniel Goodfellow
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Daniel Goodfellow first represented Great Britain as a senior at the 2013 European Diving Championships in the 10 m platform event and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in the same event.
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Daniel Goodfellow won a bronze medal in the Men's 10m Synchronised Platform event with his diving partner Tom Daley at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Daniel Goodfellow has won a gold with Daley in the same event at the Commonwealth Games, and a silver at the European Championships.
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Daniel Goodfellow's career coincided with a period of sustained success for Great Britain in the sport, and the growing depth in the men's events in his nation.
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Daniel Goodfellow was born in Cambridge on 19 October 1996 to Sharon and John Daniel Goodfellow.
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Daniel Goodfellow started attending sessions held by Cambridge Dive Team at Parkside Pools when he was young.
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Daniel Goodfellow won gold medals in 10m platform as well as 3m and 1m springboard in the 10 to 11-year-old category of the 2007 ASA National Age Group Championships as well as a bronze in the synchro.
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Daniel Goodfellow moved to Plymouth to train in 2013 and joined Plymouth Diving Club.
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In 2011, at the age of 14, Daniel Goodfellow won his first medal in a major competition at the European Junior Diving Championships in Belgrade, winning bronze in the 3m springboard.
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Daniel Goodfellow made his senior international debut in 2013 at the European Championships in Rostock and World Championships in Barcelona.
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In 2014 Daniel Goodfellow partnered with Matty Lee in the FINA Diving World Series, and won 10m Synchro bronze in two World Series legs in Dubai and Beijing.
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However, in the build-up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Daniel Goodfellow suffered an elbow injury, which sidelined him from participating in the competition in Glasgow.
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Daniel Goodfellow returned to competitive diving competition in the summer of 2015 at the tail-end of the season in the 3m springboard event in Bolzano, Italy.
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Daniel Goodfellow had to wait until the British National Cup in Southend in January 2016 to again compete in 10m diving.
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Daniel Goodfellow participated in the individual 10m competition and teamed up with Tom Daley in the 10m synchro competition.
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Daniel Goodfellow first met Tom Daley, the 2012 London Olympics individual 10m bronze medalist, in 2015.
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Daniel Goodfellow won bronze in the individual 10m dive and a gold with Daley in the 10 m synchro.
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Daniel Goodfellow and Daley earned a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympic 10m synchro competition in Rio on 8 August primarily by scoring 92.13 on their fifth dive, which was a 109C with a 3.7 degree of difficulty.
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At the 2018 Commonwealth Games held at the Gold Coast, Australia, Daniel Goodfellow won gold on the men's synchronised 10m platform with Tom Daley.
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In 2019, Daniel Goodfellow partnered with Jack Laugher in men's synchronised 3m springboard as Laugher's regular partner Chris Mears had taken a year out from competition, while Daley partnered with Matty Lee in the 10m platform synchro.
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At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup held in Japan as an official test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Daniel Goodfellow won gold in synchronised 3m springboard with Laugher.
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Daniel Goodfellow competed for England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where he won a gold medal in the Men's 3 metre springboard event.