Matty Lee

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Matty Lee
MBE
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Personal information
Full nameMatthew Lee
Born (1998-03-05) 5 March 1998 (age 26)
Leeds, England [1]
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) [1]
Weight70 kg (11 st 0 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
England
Sport Diving
Event(s)1 m, 3 m, 10 m, 10 m synchro
ClubDive London
Coached by Jane Figueiredo
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 10 m synchro
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Budapest Mixed 10 m synchro
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Budapest 10 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Gwangju 10 m synchro
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Budapest 10 m synchro
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Glasgow Mixed 10 m synchro
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 London Mixed 10 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 London Team event
European Diving Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Kyiv Mixed 10 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Kyiv 10 m platform
European Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Baku 10 m platform
European Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Poznan 3 m springboard
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Graz 3 m springboard
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Poznan 10 m platform
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Poznan 1 m springboard
FINA Diving World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Tokyo 10 m synchro
British Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Plymouth10 m synchro
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Plymouth10 m platform
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 10 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 10 m platform

Matthew Lee MBE (born 5 March 1998) is a British diver and Olympic gold medallist. [2] Adept in both individual and synchronised diving, and across both 3-metre springboard and platform, Lee won the gold medal in 10-metre platform at the 2015 European Games, the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform at the 2017 European Diving Championships and has twice been European junior champion on the 3-metre springboard. At world level, Lee won the silver medal in the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform event at the 2017 World Championships, and at the 2019 World Championships, Lee and Tom Daley won bronze in the 10 m synchro event, as well as gold in July 2021 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Early life

Matty Lee was born to Helen and Tim Lee on 5 March 1998 in Leeds. [3] [4] He learned to swim, then took up diving in 2005 at the age of seven. [5] [6] He was also involved in gymnastics and aikido, but chose to concentrate on diving in 2007. He trained with the City of Leeds Diving Club at the John Charles Centre for Sport. [6] He studied at Carr Manor Community School from 2009 to 2014, [7] and Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College from 2014 to 2016. [8]

Career

In 2012, Lee competed at his first European Junior Championships. He won the 3 m Springboard gold and then went to compete at the World Junior Championships later in the season, securing a top result of seventh in the Group B Platform.

In 2013, Lee won medals in all three Group B individual events at his second European Junior Championships, defending his 3 m title and taking silver in 10 m Platform, bronze in 1m Springboard.

In 2014, he debuted as a senior in the World Cup series. He was selected to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but withdrew from the diving squad due to injury.

In 2015, Lee competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games held in Baku. He won gold in 10 m platform beating Russia's Nikita Shleikher. [9]

2017

At the 2017 European Diving Championships in Kyiv, Lee won a bronze in the Men's 10-metre platform, [10] and a gold in the mixed 10 m platform synchro with diving partner Lois Toulson. [11] The pair then won a silver at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in the 10 m mixed synchro. [12]

2018–2019

At the 2018 British Diving Championships, Lee and his partner Kyle Kothari (from London) won the 10 m synchro event with a final score of 406.17, a sizeable margin over the second place score of 388.50. [13] He came second in the men's 10 m platform with a score of 485.60. [14]

Lee and his partner Lois Toulson won a bronze at the 2018 FINA Diving World Series held in Beijing in the mixed platform synchro. [15] At the 2018 European Championships held in Glasgow/Edinburgh, Lee and Toulson won a silver in the mixed 10-metre platform synchro. [16]

Starting October 2018, Lee partnered with Tom Daley in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform. [17]

At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea, Lee and Daley finished in the bronze position in the 10 m synchro. [18]

2021–2024

At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup held in Japan, Lee and Daley won gold in synchronised 10 m platform. [19] The pair also won gold in synchronised 10 m platform at the European Championships held in Budapest. [20]

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Lee won Gold alongside Daley in the Men's synchronised 10 m platform event, edging out China's Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen with a total score of 471.81. [21]

Lee was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to diving. [22] [23]

At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Lee partnered with Noah Williams for the first time in an international competition and they won silver in the synchro 10 m platform event. [24]

Lee and Williams again partnered at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the synchro 10m platform, where the pair won gold. [25] In individual events, Lee won a bronze in 10 m platform. [26]

In March 2024, Lee underwent a discectomy on the L5/S1 disc in his spine, [27] effectively ruling him out of competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Television

In November 2021, Lee was announced as a contestant on the twenty-first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! . [28] He finished in fifth place.

Lee appeared on The Chase on 28 August 2022 with Sunetra Sarker, Basil Brush, and David Arnold. [29] All four celebrities completed in the Final Chase against Darragh Ennis for £19,000. The team beat Ennis with each celebrity taking £4,750 home for their charities.

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  4. ↑ Higgens, Dave (26 July 2021). "Matty Lee's family 'stunned' by his gold as they watch in the garden at home" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
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  7. ↑ "Alumni Success" (PDF). At A Glance. No. 426. Carr Manor Community School. September 2021. p. 11.
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