Matthew John Mitcham is an Australian retired diver and trampolinist, born on 2 March 1988. He began as a trampoline gymnast and was spotted at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in Brisbane by Wang Tong Xiang, a coach with the Australian Institute of Sport diving program. As a junior he won the 2004 World Junior silver medals in the 1 metre, 3 metre synchronised and 10 metre platform events, and he took his first senior national title in 2005. At the 2008 Olympics he won the 10 metre platform with a dive that was then the highest scoring in Olympic history and is now the second highest. That made him the first openly gay man to win an Olympic gold medal and the first Australian male to win Olympic diving gold since Dick Eve in 1924.
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is an Australian retired diver and trampolinist
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As a diver, he was the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10m platform
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