Chris Mears

Christopher James Mears is a British diver, born on 7 February 1993 in Reading and raised in Burghfield Common, Berkshire, who also works as a DJ and music producer. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the synchronised 3 metre springboard with Jack Laugher and won gold, the first Olympic gold medal for Britain in diving. He added two further synchro golds with Laugher at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and 2018, one gold and one silver at the European Championships and a bronze at the World Championships. At fifteen he nearly died after a ruptured spleen during training in Sydney, and after a long recovery he returned to competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India.