Diver Tom Daley Wins His First Gold: ‘I Am A Gay Man And Also An Olympic Champion’

Britain’s Tom Daley and diving partner Matty Lee have won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s synchronized 10m platform dive in Tokyo. The pair narrowly beat China’s CAO Yuan and CHEN Aisen, who took silver. Russia’s Aleksandr Bondar and Viktor Minibaev took bronze.

Daley, 27, and Lee, 23, scored 471.81 points: just 1.23 points ahead of China.

Daley came out in 2013 and is married to American screenwriter Dustin Lance Black with the pair having a son, Robbie, and he wants his gold in Japan to be an example to others.

"I hope that any young LGBT+ person out there can see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone. You can achieve anything," said Daley, who added to his two Olympic bronze medals from 2012 and 2016.

"In terms of out athletes, there are more openly out athletes at these Olympic Games than any Olympic Games previously.