Tom Daley

• Born: 21 May 1994

Tom Daley

Record-breaker Tom Daley is Great Britain’s most decorated diver having won every major honour during an outstanding career which spanned more than 20 years.

Daley competed at five Olympics, winning one gold, one silver and three bronze medals, before announcing his retirement at the end of the Paris 2024 Games.

In addition to his Olympic podium places, he has been multiple world, European and Commonwealth Games champion having first competed at the age of seven.

Daley was the youngest to win the 10m Platform event at the British National Championships when he was only 13 – a sign of the success to come.

He appeared at his first Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 aged only 14 before winning his first medal at London 2012.

Further podium places followed at Rio 2016 before Daley’s most memorable moment of his career arrived at the Tokyo 2020 Games as and Matty Lee were victorious in the 10m Synchro Platform.

Despite a two-year break from the sport after Tokyo, Daley returned alongside Noah Williams to take silver in Paris and complete the set of Olympic medals in his historic fifth Games.

One of the most recognisable faces in the sport, Daley was made an OBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours list for services to diving, LGBTQ+ rights and charity.