Anthony Harding (diver)

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Anthony Harding
2018-10-14 Presentation (Diving Boys 3m springboard) at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics by Sandro Halank-022.jpg
Harding in 2018
Personal information
Born (2000-06-30) 30 June 2000 (age 25)
Ashton-under-Lyne, England [1]
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
Sport Diving
Event(s)3 m, 3 m synchro
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 001
World Championships 021
European Championships 102
Commonwealth Games 100
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Paris 3 m synchro
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Budapest 3 m synchro
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Fukuoka 3 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Singapore 3 m synchro
European Aquatics Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Rome 3 m synchro
European Diving Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Kyiv 3 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Kyiv Team
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 3 m synchro

Anthony Harding (born 30 June 2000) is an English diver specialising in the 3 metre synchronised event, and achieving his greatest success partnered with Jack Laugher. He won a bronze medal in the synchronised three metre springboard at the 2024 Summer Olympics having won silver in the same event at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships. He again took bronze at the 2025 World Championships. He is the 2022 European and Commonwealth Games champion in the same event.

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Early life

Harding grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester. He joined the City of Leeds diving club at age 10, and relocated to Leeds without his family at age 16. He studied at Elliott Hudson College, before starting a course in electronic engineering at Leeds City College. [2]

Career

Harding participated in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, where he won the silver medal behind Daniel Restrepo in the boy's 3m springboard event. [3]

After the 2020 Summer Olympics in August 2021 Harding started training together with Jack Laugher. They won the silver medal in the synchronized 3m springboard event at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. [4]

Alongside Jack Laugher, he won a bronze medal in the synchronised three metre springboard at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [5] [6]

In 2025, at the World Championships in Singapore, he won a bronze medal with Jack Laugher, in the 3 metre synchro springboard. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Anthony Harding" . Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Leeds Diving Club ace Anthony Harding has Tokyo 2020 in his sights". Yorkshire Evening Post. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Olympedia – Anthony Harding". olympedia.org. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Laugher and Harding make a splash with World Championship silver". teamgb.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "GB's Laugher & Harding win synchro 3m bronze". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "Jack Laugher 'relief' as he and Anthony Harding secure bronze with final dive". The Independent. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "GB win freestyle relay for first 2025 Worlds gold". BBC Sport. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.


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