50 Facts About Tom Daley

Thomas Robert Daley was born on 21 May 1994 and is an English retired diver, YouTuber and television personality.

Tom Daley is an Olympic champion in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform event at the 2020 Olympics and double world champion in the FINA 10-metre platform event, winning in 2009 at the age of fifteen, and again in 2017.

Tom Daley is an Olympic bronze medallist in the 2012 platform event, the 2016 synchronised event, and the 2020 platform event.

Tom Daley won the silver medal in the men's synchronised 10-metre at the 2024 Olympics, making him the first British diver to win 5 Olympic medals.

Tom Daley competed in team events, winning the inaugural mixed team World title in 2015, and repeating the win in 2024, his fourth World title in all.

Tom Daley is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, a two-time junior World Champion, a five-time European champion and four-time Commonwealth champion.

Tom Daley started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club, where his talent was identified early, and made an impact in national and international competitions from age nine.

Tom Daley represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he was Britain's youngest competitor, age fourteen, and the youngest from any nation to participate in a final.

In 2023 Tom Daley became an assistant diving coach at UCLA.

Thomas Robert Tom Daley was born on 21 May 1994 at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, England, the son of Debbie and Robert Tom Daley.

Tom Daley was spotted by a coach taking part in regular diving lessons and was placed in a competitive squad in September 2002.

Tom Daley met the qualification standard for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but was not selected for the England team because of his age.

From age 11 to 14, Tom Daley attended Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth.

Tom Daley was praised in the media for speaking out about his problem.

Tom 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 instead accepted a "very significant scholarship" from local independent school Plymouth College.

Tom Daley took his GCSEs in small batches to fit around his diving commitments.

Tom Daley 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 Italian Vogue.

In 2012, Tom Daley finished his two-year A-level studies in mathematics, Spanish and photography.

Tom Daley decided not to undertake an International Baccalaureate course because of the pressures he faced in his preparation for the 2012 Olympics.

Tom Daley passed all GCSE and A-level exams with A or A*.

In January 2007, at the age of twelve, Tom Daley was given a special dispensation to compete at the 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival.

Tom Daley won the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality award.

Tom Daley was considered a medal prospect for the 2012 Summer Olympics 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.

Two weeks later, Tom 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.

In March 2008, Tom Daley became the youngest person to win a gold medal at the European Championships, held in Eindhoven.

Tom 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.

On 12 October 2010, Tom Daley attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.

In November 2010, Tom Daley was announced as a nominated sportsman for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2010 and the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2010.

Tom Daley won 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.

On 27 July 2011, Tom Daley took the first dive in London's newly built Olympic Park Aquatics Centre marking the one-year countdown until the games begin.

Three weeks later, in the Moscow event, Tom Daley won silver in the individual platform event, while the pairing finished fifth in the synchro.

Tom Daley was warned by British Swimming chief executive David Sparkes that taking part in the series would risk damaging his chances of winning an Olympic gold medal in the future.

At the beginning of 2014, Tom Daley moved his training base from the Life Centre in Plymouth to the London Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in east London, with a new coach, Jane Figueiredo.

At the World Championships held in Kazan, Russia, Tom Daley won the gold medal with Rebecca Gallantree in the inaugural team event competition.

At the 2016 FINA Diving World Series, which consisted of four competitions, Tom Daley earned six medals.

Tom Daley partnered with Matty Lee starting in October 2018 in the men's synchronized 10-metre platform.

Tom Daley was selected to take part in the 10 metre platform synchronised event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with Noah Williams; the pair went on to win the silver medal.

Tom Daley was chosen to be one of Team GB's flag-bearers at the opening ceremony alongside rower Helen Glover.

The day after the closing ceremony, Tom Daley announced his official retirement from diving.

Tom Daley's channel covers various topics such as vlogs, exercise and food.

On 2 December 2013, Tom Daley released a YouTube video announcing that he had been in a relationship with a man since early that year.

Tom Daley and Black met at an industry event, with Tom Daley later saying that it was "a real love-at-first-sight thing".

Tom Daley maintains a separate Instagram account dedicated to his knitting and crochet projects.

In October 2021, Tom Daley said he would make it his "mission" to campaign for countries where homosexuality is punishable by death to be banned from the next Olympics.

In 2015, Tom Daley became a patron of the LGBT+ charity Switchboard and collaborated with YouTuber Calum McSwiggan to relaunch the charity under its new name.

In October 2017, Tom Daley hosted the Virgin Holidays Attitude Awards for the first time.

Tom Daley's book choice was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling and his luxury item was an oven.

Since 2023, Tom Daley has been one of several British Olympians and Paralympians to feature in adverts for British Gas.

In July 2024, it was announced that Tom Daley would join Eurosport as part of its on-screen team of pundits for its coverage at the Paris Olympics.

Tom Daley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to diving, LGBTQ+ rights and charity.