Read moreWhy Can’t The USA Compete In The Commonwealth Games? (And Other Burning Questions)22 July 2014PHOENIX, Arizona, July 22. THE Opening Ceremony of the 20th Commonwealth Games takes place in a matter of hours in Glasgow, Scotland, with swimming heats set to begin Thursday morning. The roster of nations that are invited to this prestigious competitions is an exclusive one, and can't be entered i...
Read more1Coach Jane Figueiredo Leaves Aquatics GB After Guiding Divers To The Pinnacle04 February 2025Coach Jane Figueiredo Leaves Aquatics GB After Guiding Divers To The Pinnacle Jane Figueiredo, who guided Tom Daley and Matty Lee to 10m synchro Olympic gold in Tokyo, is leaving Aquatics GB after 11 years. After starting her coaching role at the Aquatics GB Performance Centre London in 2013, her d....
Read moreGold Medalist Diver Matty Lee to Miss Paris Olympics after Spinal Surgery27 March 2024Gold Medalist Diver Matty Lee to Miss Paris Olympics after Spinal Surgery Olympic gold medalist Matty Lee of Great Britain will miss the Paris Olympics this summer after undergoing spinal surgery. Lee posted to social media that he underwent a discectomy on his L5/S1 disk. The procedure treated chro...
Read moreThe Daley Extra: World Champ British Diver Tom Daley Further Adored As DIY Knitter, Crocheter, and Feel-Good Content Creator Ahead of Fourth Olympics24 June 2021World Champ British Diver Tom Daley Further Adored As DIY Knitter, Crocheter, and Feel-Good Content Creator Ahead of Fourth Olympics On May 1, British diver Tom Daley, whose passage to the Olympics was already assured by his synchronized bronze medal from the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, Kor...
Read more1Swimming & Para Swimming Among 10 Sports On 2026 Commonwealth Games Programme: Diving Misses Out22 October 2024Swimming & Para Swimming Among 10 Sports At 2026 Commonwealth Games: Diving Misses Out Swimming and para swimming have been confirmed among 10 sports to be contested at the 2026 Commonwealth Games although diving will not be on the scaled-down programme in Glasgow. The programme also includes athlet...
Read moreParis Olympics: Tom Daley Set For Historic Fifth Games, 16 Years After Debut At Beijing 200828 July 2024Paris Olympics: Tom Daley Set For Historic Fifth Games, 16 Years After Debut At Beijing 2008 Tom Daley will on Monday compete in an historic fifth Olympic Games, 16 years after making his debut aged 14 at Beijing 2008. Now 30, the Team GB athlete will become the first British diver to take to the Ol...
Read moreWorld's Best Divers Looking Forward to Competing in FINA/CNSG Diving World Series in Montreal25 April 2019Eighty-five of the world's best divers have arrived in Montreal for the third leg of a total FINA/CNSG Diving World Series events. Prior editions in Sagamihrara, Japan (87 divers) and Beijing, China (67) tested the athletes who have arrived in Canada earlier this week to compete head to head to win ...
Read moreWorld Championships Doha: Tom Daley Set For Fifth Olympics After Synchro Silver With Noah Williams09 February 2024World Championships Doha: Tom Daley Set For Fifth Olympics After Synchro Silver With Noah Williams Tom Daley is on course for his fifth Olympics after winning silver alongside Noah Williams in the men's 10m synchro at the World Championships in Doha. Lian Junjie and Yang Hao of China claimed their t...
Read moreSwimming World Performance of the Week: Tom Daley On Top In Platform Diving05 May 2015Tom Daley has been working hard to regain the form that earned him the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics on the 10-meter platform in front of a cheering home crowd in London, attempting to shake off a rough 2013 that saw him off the podium at that year's world championships due to multiple injuries....
Read more1Tom Daley Picked As Top British Aquatic Sports Athlete Of 201504 October 2015In a year that saw Great Britain excel in all facets of aquatic sports at all levels, the competition for the public’s vote to earn the British Swimming Athlete of the Year was fierce. In perhaps a bit of a surprise, diver Tom Daley won over the public, beating out two swimming world champions. Dale...
Read more2Tom Daley Claims 10-Meter In Montreal; Team China Dominates FINA/CNSG Diving World Series30 April 2019Tom Daley of Great Britain and the DPR Korea pair composed of Jo Jin Mi / Kim Mi Rae were the only non-Chinese divers to break Team China's supremacy this weekend in Montreal, Canada, as the Quebec city was hosting the third leg of the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series 2019 from April 26-28. World champ...
Read moreBritish Swimming Responds To "Eye-Opening" Challenges Posed By Staging Of World Championships In June07 February 2022British Swimming has responded to FINA staging a global meet in June by underlining the physical and mental demands on athletes and coaches who now face an "eye-opening sequence" of three major meets in about eight weeks. FINA announced on Monday it will stage an “extraordinary” World Championships ...
Read more1Swimmer Hobbies: A Necessary Break From the Pool02 November 2021Swimmer Hobbies: A Necessary Break From the Pool By Annika Hobson, Swimming World College Intern One of the most demanding sports, swimming calls for a great deal of dedication, so it can be helpful to have some hobbies to relax after a hard day of training. A swimmer’s main hobby remains swimming, ...
Read moreTom Daley, Matty Lee Claim Stunning Gold in Synchronized Platform Diving26 July 2021Tom Daley and Matty Lee produced the combined performance of their diving lives to seal a stunning victory in the Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform and claim Olympic gold at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Returning to the scene of their triumph in the Diving World Cup earlier in the year, the British duo ...
Read moreTom Daley Makes History As He Is Named To Great Britain Squad For Fifth Olympics In Paris07 May 2024Tom Daley Makes History As He Is Named To Great Britain Squad For Fifth Olympics In Paris Tom Daley will become the first British diver to compete at five Olympic Games after four synchro pairings were named to Team GB for Paris 2024. With Aquatics GB divers having qualified a full set of Games quot...
Read morePassages: Chen Wen, Two-Time British Diving Olympic Coach, Aged 8004 January 2022British Swimming has announced the death of diving coach, Chen Wen, aged 80 who worked with the national team across the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. One of the pioneering coaches of the modern era, Chen joined the British Diving programme as a national coach in 2003, notably working with Leon Tayl...
Read moreTom Daley Retires After Olympic Career Spanning 16 Years & A Full Set Of Medals12 August 2024Tom Daley Retires After Olympic Career Spanning 16 Years & A Full Set Of Medals Tom Daley has retired from diving after a senior international career that spanned 16 years and brought Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles. The 30-year-old has been winning national titles since 2007 and in...
Read more1British Three-Time Olympic Diver Grace Reid Retires11 October 2025British Three-Time Olympic Diver Grace Reid Retires Grace Reid, a diver who represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games, announced her retirement from the sport this week. Reid dove internationally for more than a decade, winning three medals at the World Championships and two European titles f...
Read moreTom Daley Tops England Diving Commonwealth Games Roster05 February 2018With only two months to go until the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games begin on 4 April, Team England has selected 13 divers who will compete for ‘Team and Country’ in Australia. Team England have previously won 67 medals in diving at the Commonwealth Games, including 27 gold and topped the diving....
Read more2Tom Daley and Grace Reid Close World Diving Series With Gold In London19 May 2019Tom Daley and Grace Reid produced a sensational final dive of the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series in London to strike Mixed 3m Synchro gold in front of an adoring British crowd. With Daley having clinched the overall World Series crown earlier in the night courtesy of bronze in the 10m individual and....