Tom Dean

Tom Dean is a British competitive freestyle swimmer who has won three Olympic gold medals. Born on 2 May 2000 in London and raised in Maidenhead, Berkshire, he took up swimming at the age of eight and later studied mechanical engineering at the University of Bath while training at the National Centre for Swimming in Bath. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo he won the 200 metre freestyle and the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay with Great Britain, and he added a second relay gold in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He has won relay gold at the World Championships, the Olympic Games and the European Championships and, for England, at the Commonwealth Games. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to swimming.