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Full name | Matthew Lewis Dixon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Plymouth, United Kingdom | 19 April 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 10 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Dive London Aquatics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Alex Rochas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthew Lewis Dixon (born on 19 April 2000) is an English diver who represents Great Britain and specialises in the 10 metre platform event. He won a silver medal at the European Championships in the 10 m synchro platform with Noah Williams as well as two silvers at the Commonwealth Games.
At the 2012 British National Cup Matthew finished 12th in the 10 m platform. At the 2013 British Diving Championship he finished 10th in the 3 m springboard and 5th in the 10 m Platform preliminaries. [1]
At the 2014 European Junior Championships he finished 15th in the 1 m Springboard, 8th in the 3 m Springboard and won Bronze on the platform. At the 2014 British National Cup he finished 8th in the 3 m springboard and 5th in the 10 m platform. At the 2014 British Diving Championship he won Gold in the 10 m platform. [2] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games Matthew finished 9th in the 10 m platform. [3]
In 2017, Dixon partnered with Noah Williams in the men's synchronized 10 metre platform in the FINA Grand Prix event held in Gatineau, Canada, and won a gold medal. [4] At the European Juniors in Bergen, Norway, the duo also won a silver in the 10 metre platform synchro. Dixon also won a gold in the group A platform, beating his diving partner Williams. [5]
At the 2017 European Diving Championships, Williams and Dixon won their first senior international title, gaining a bronze in the 10 metre platform synchro. [6]
At the 2018 British Diving Championships, Dixon reclaimed his 10m platform title, scoring 437.10 in the prelims and a new personal best of 494.30 in the final, beating Leeds' Matty Lee and London's Noah Williams. [7] Dixon and Williams came 2nd in the 10m synchro. [8]
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, Dixon and Williams scored 399.99 points, winning the silver medal behind fellow GB divers Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow. [9] He also won a silver medal in the 10m individual event with a final score of 449.55, losing out to Australian diver Domonic Bedggood, who came first with a score of 451.15.
At the World Junior Diving Championships in Kyiv, Dixon and Williams won the silver medal in the 10 metre platform synchro. [10]
At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow/ Edinburgh, Dixon won a silver with Noah Williams in the Men's 10 m synchro platform. [11]
At the 2019 European Diving Championships held in Kyiv, Dixon won a bronze in Men's 10m synchro with Williams. [12]
Competition | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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World Cup, 10m platform | 9th | 6th | ||||||||||
World Cup, 10m synchro | 6th | |||||||||||
Commonwealth Games, 10m platform | 9th | 2nd | 11th [A] | |||||||||
Commonwealth Games, 10m synchro | 2nd | |||||||||||
European Aquatics Championships, 10m platform | 6th | |||||||||||
European Aquatics Championships, 10m synchro | 2nd | |||||||||||
European Diving Championships, 10m platform | 14th [A] | 6th | 8th | |||||||||
European Diving Championships, 10m synchro | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | |||||||||
European Diving Championships, 3m springboard | 6th | |||||||||||
European Games, 10m platform | 4th | |||||||||||
World Junior Championships, 10m platform | 8th | 3rd | 5th | |||||||||
World Junior Championships, 10m synchro | 2nd | |||||||||||
European Junior Championships, 10m platform | 3rd | 1st | 1st | |||||||||
European Junior Championships, 10m synchro | 2nd | |||||||||||
European Junior Championships, 3m springboard | 8th | |||||||||||
European Junior Championships, 1m springboard | 15th [A] | |||||||||||
British Championships, 10m platform | 5th [A] | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | |||
British Championships, 10m synchro | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | ||||||||
British Championships, 3m springboard | 10th [A] | 9th [A] | ||||||||||
British National Cup, 10m platform | 13th [A] | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | ||||||
British National Cup, 10m synchro | 1st | |||||||||||
British National Cup, 3m springboard | 8th | |||||||||||
British National Cup, 1m springboard | 3rd |