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Who is Matthew Mitcham

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Dive into Matt

Check out Australia's Matthew Mitcham - gold medal winning dive legend from the Beijing Olympic Games as he prepares to do it again (hopefully) in London 2012.

Well done to Matt for his four silver medals at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Matt at Delhi
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Matthew at Beijing
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Matt wins sports performer of the year
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Matt gets stamped
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Matt at Delhi

Commonwealth Games 2010

Read about Matt's medals at the Delhi Commonwealth Games . . .

Gold
None

Silver
Men's 1m springboard
Men's 10m synchronised platform (with Ethan Warren)
Men's 3m springboard synchronised (with Ethan Warren)
Men's 10m platform

Bronze
None

Matt quick facts

Date of birth: March 2, 1988
Place of birth: Brisbane, Australia
Height: 174 centimetres (5 ft 9 in)
Club: Abbotsleigh Diving Club, NSW
Head coach: Chava Sobrino

Matt latest news

Leeds to be training base for Australian diving team before London 2012: By Duncan Mackay February 13 - Australia's diving team, including Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham (pictured), will prepare for London 2012 in Leeds, it has been announced. Diving Australia are planning to sending a group of approximately nine divers ...
Interview: Greg Louganis on gold medals, HIV and Matthew Mitcham: In May 2008, shortly before the Beijing Olympics, Matthew Mitcham announced he was gay in an interview with Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. When did Greg first hear about Matthew? ?The first I heard was friends asking me if I'd seen the story,? he ...
'Tom Daley's media work could harm chance of gold medal', claims British ...: For instance, Matthew Mitcham dropped his dive and Qiu Bo dropped his dive as well. ?It was a circumstance where everybody dropped and Thomas did the best and he won. But if people think he is the best in the world, he is not because at the next World ...
Aussies dive right into 2012: Reigning Olympic Champion Matthew Mitcham leads the field on the comeback trail from an injury-plagued 2011. His Commonwealth Games synchro partner Ethan Warren is also competing fresh off a win at the Rostock Grand Prix in Germany last week.

Matt tweets

from Delhi

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Matthew at Beijing

Olympic Games 2008

Mitcham represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 10 m platform and the 3 m springboard events. He placed 16th on the 3 m springboard and did not qualify for the final.

He qualified in second position for the semi-final and final of the 10 m platform event. After experiencing mixed success in his first five dives in the final, Mitcham entered the final round of dives in second place, 34 points behind Chinese diver Zhou L�xin. After Zhou performed his worst dive of the final and scored 74.80, Mitcham still needed to score 107.30, a very high score on the platform, to win the gold. However, his near-perfect final dive drew four perfect 10 scores from judges and achieved a score of 112.10, the highest single-dive score in Olympic history.

Australia's Matthew Mitcham snatched gold from Chinese favourite Zhou Luxin on his final dive to win the men's 10 metres platform and deny China a sweep of all eight diving golds at the Beijing Games.

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10m Platform Men Gold Medallist: Matthew Mitcham

Matt on blogs

Leeds to be training base for Australian diving team before London 2012: By Duncan Mackay February 13 - Australia's diving team, including Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham (pictured), will prepare for London 2012 in Leeds, it has been announced. Diving Australia are planning to sending a group of approximately nine divers ...
Interview: Greg Louganis on gold medals, HIV and Matthew Mitcham: In May 2008, shortly before the Beijing Olympics, Matthew Mitcham announced he was gay in an interview with Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. When did Greg first hear about Matthew? ?The first I heard was friends asking me if I'd seen the story,? he ...
'Tom Daley's media work could harm chance of gold medal', claims British ...: For instance, Matthew Mitcham dropped his dive and Qiu Bo dropped his dive as well. ?It was a circumstance where everybody dropped and Thomas did the best and he won. But if people think he is the best in the world, he is not because at the next World ...
Aussies dive right into 2012: Reigning Olympic Champion Matthew Mitcham leads the field on the comeback trail from an injury-plagued 2011. His Commonwealth Games synchro partner Ethan Warren is also competing fresh off a win at the Rostock Grand Prix in Germany last week.

Matt on facebook

Become a fan of Matthew on his facebook fan page and check out his official website here.

Matt wins sports performer of the year

2008

Beijing Olympics diving gold medallist Matthew Mitcham upstaged a star-studded field to win the 2008 Sports Performer of the Year award in Melbourne in November 2008.

The 20-year-old was one of eight elite athletes shortlisted for the award but his heroics in claiming individual gold in the men's 10m platform event at the 2008 Games was deemed the most worthy of recognition.

Pole vaulter Steve Hooker, triathlete Emma Snowsill, swimmer Stephanie Rice and kayaker Ken Wallace were the other Australian individual gold medallists to be shortlisted, while surfer Stephanie Gilmore, ironman Craig Alexander and AFL goalkicking superstar Lance Franklin were also in contention for the top individual award.

Read more here.

(Photo by Neil Bennett, The Age, Nov 27, 2008)

Matthew Mitcham also won the Don Award during the 24th Sport Australia Hall Of Fame Dinner and Induction at Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex on October 8, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.

The annual award at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (SAHOF) function - named in honour of cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman - recognises the sporting achievement of the year that most inspires the nation.

Read more here.

Matt on eBay

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Matt talks to aussiebum

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Matt gets stamped

Four months after winning a gold medal in platform diving, Australian Matthew Mitcham still has not secured any sponsorships, a development that perplexes him. In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Mitcham says he does not regret coming out before the Games, but does wonder if that has made any companies cautious.

"Yeah, I haven't got anything yet. I'm working on stuff, and looking for stuff but, no, I haven't got anything yet. It has surprised and disappointed me, I guess, because I have seen how successful some other athletes are after winning Olympic medals. I hope it will all come."

Mitcham, as is every Aussie gold medal winner, received $17,400 for allowing use of his image on Olympic stamps issued by Australia Post. Mitcham, 20, also earned another $17,400 in a bonus paid by Adidas.

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Matt's official website

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www.mattmitcham.com

Matt's love life

Matthew Mitcham's boyfriend, Lachlan Fletcher, was in the stands when he won the 10-meter platform gold as shown in the picture opposite from Reuters.

Here is a nice profile of Mitcham and Fletcher's relationship from the Sydney Morning Herald.