Diving

Diving has featured at the Olympic Games for over a century, and there will be eight medals on offer in the sport at Tokyo 2020.
There will be four medals available each for men and women, including two 3m springboard and two 10m platform events.
Below, we take a look

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There aren’t many divers in the world more versatile than Great Britain’s Dan Goodfellow.
At just 23-years-old he is already something of a veteran on the international circuit, having an Olympic medal on the platform and a world medal on the springboard.
Most divers specialise in one of the variations

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Versatile Dan Goodfellow: "Diving is 90 percent mental"

Jack Laugher has managed to achieve something very few others have in diving.
In a sport so heavily dominated by the brilliance of China, the Brit has not only managed to equal to his Asian counterparts in competition, but often sets the standard.
At the Rio 2016 Olympics, China won

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Diving Olympic champ Jack Laugher: Coping with an obsession for perfection

Jack Laugher is Britain's most successful Olympic diver.
Together with Chris Mears, the Yorkshireman won the country's first Olympic gold medal in diving in the synchro 3m springboard at Rio 2016.
Six days later, Laugher took silver in the individual event behind China's Cao Yuan.
The pair will do battle

Jack Laugher competing at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

Jack Laugher defies niggling injuries to take diving to another level

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China's Aisen Chen and Yue Lin win gold with a nearly perfect all-around score, as Great Britain's pair fights to win bronze.

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Chinese pair win Men's Synchronized Diving 10m gold

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Simone

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Armand

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Mikaela

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Ilia

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Great Britain got their diving campaign off to a strong start after clinching gold in the mixed team event at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar on Friday (2 February).
Tom Daley, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, Scarlett Mew Jensen and Daniel Goodfellow combined for a total of 421.65 points to

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Gold Medalists: Daniel Goodfellow, Thomas Daley, Scarlett Mew Jensen and Andrea Spendolini Sirieix of Team Great Britain

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With less than six months to go until the start of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, the Aquatics World Championships, starting 2 February, has already provided some key headlines before the competition even begins, especially for Team GB.
Return of Tom Daley? Tick.
Adam Peaty on the charge again? Tick.

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Great Britain at the Aquatics World Championships, featuring the return of Adam Peaty and Tom Daley

With Olympic champions like Tom Daley and Jack Laugher leading up-and-coming stars like Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix Great Britain have assembled an exciting and well-balanced diving team for the Doha 2024 World Aquatics Championships.
That said, victory is anything but assured.
The People’s Republic of China squad features six Olympic champions, and

Tom Daley and Matty Lee of Team Great Britain pose for photographers with their gold medals after winning the Men's Synchronised 10m Platform Final on day three of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tom Daley and Matty Lee headline the Great Britain diving team for the Doha 2024 World Aquatics Championships

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Quick quiz.
Who was Britain's first-ever Olympic diving champion?
Who was the first British diver to win multiple Olympic diving medals at the same Games?
If you answered 'Tom Daley' to one or both of the above you'd be forgiven, but you'd be wrong.
Jack Laugher is your record breaker,

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 10:  (L-R) Gold medalists Jack Laugher and Chris Mears of Great Britain pose during the medal ceremony for the Men's Diving Synchronised 3m Springboard Final on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on August 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

Jack Laugher and Chris Mears British Olympic diving champions

Jack Laugher's synchronicity with diving partners continues to reap rewards

Diving events will be the first on show at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, this month. From 14–22 July 2023, the world's top divers will take part in 13 different events at the Fukuoka Prefectural Pool.
The sport returns to its traditional position at the start of

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Matty Lee (Great Britain) competes in the Men's 10m Platform Final at the Budapest 2022 FINA World Championships.

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Platform diving is scary business. Rio 2016 bronze medallist Daniel Goodfellow knows a thing or two about it. "I can guarantee you every single diver that goes up there t o do their divs, will be scared," he tells us. "I've been coughing up blood after I've hit the water." In 2019 Goodfellow switched from the platform to the 3m springboard.

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Daniel Goodfellow: Why platform diving can be so scary

When it comes to diving, China stand head and shoulders above the rest.
The Asian powerhouse swept up an astonishing 7 from 8 gold medals at Rio 2016, before claiming 8 of the 13 titles on offer at the 2017 FINA World Championships.
Olympic champions Shi Tingmao, Ren Qian, Cao

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