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| Born | July 19, 2003 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Home town | Ballwin, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 3 meter springboard, 3 meter springboard synchro | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Purdue University | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Purdue Diving | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Adam Soldati | ||||||||||||||
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Tyler Downs (born July 19, 2003) is an American competitive Olympic diver and social media personality.
Tyler Downs was born on July 19, 2003, in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] He is youngest of seven children born to Theresa and Donnie Downs. He attended Laurel Springs Online School, graduating in 2021. [2]
Downs is a six time U.S. junior national diving champion. [3] Downs competed at the 2015, 2017, and 2019 U.S. Junior Pan American Games. He competed at the 2019 Sagamihara and Beijing World Series. At the 2018 World Junior Diving Championships, he was the silver medalist in 1-meter. At the 2019 Junior Pan American Championships, he won gold on the 3-meter and synchronized 3-meter and bronze on the 1-meter and platform. [4] [2]
Downs qualified to represent the United States in the Men's 3 metre springboard at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo after triumphing in the event at the U.S. Olympic trials and in the process defeating his hero, David Boudia. [5] [6] However, in Tokyo he failed to proceed beyond the preliminary round, finishing 23rd in a field of 29 divers. [7]
Downs lives in Ballwin, Missouri. [8] He committed to attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in the Fall 2021, to compete for the "Boilermakers" swimming and diving squad. [9] As of September 22, 2022, however, he was no longer a student at Purdue. [10]
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