English swimmer
Full name Thomas William Darnton Dean National team Great Britain England Born (2000-05-02 ) 2 May 2000 (age 24)
London ,
England Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
[1] Weight 88 kg (194 lb)
[1] Sport
Swimming Strokes
Medley ,
freestyle Club Bath National Centre Coach David McNulty
Thomas William Darnton Dean
MBE (born 2 May 2000)
[2] is an English competitive freestyle
swimmer . He is a double Olympic gold medalist, winning gold individually in
200 metre freestyle and as part of a team in
4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the
2020 Summer Olympics .
[3]
He has represented Great Britain at the
European Junior Championships and the
European Championships. He also competed at the
2020 European Championships where he won three gold and two silver medals in the team events and one individual bronze in
200m freestyle . Dean has won relay gold at all four major events available to him - at World Championships, Olympic Games and European Championships and, for England, at Commonwealth Games.
Early life
Dean was born to Jacquie Hughes and Jonathan Dean in
London , the second of five children.
[4]
[5]
[6] He grew up in
Maidenhead , Berkshire, and was a pupil at the
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in
Marlow, Buckinghamshire .
[7] He took up swimming when he was eight, and joined the Maidenhead Marlins.
[8]
He went to study
mechanical engineering at the
University of Bath in 2018 while training at the National Centre for Swimming in Bath.
[9]
Career
At the
2017 European Junior Championships , Dean won the gold medal in the 200m Individual Medley
[10] and the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley.
[11] At the
2018 European Junior Championships , Dean retained the gold medal in the 200m Individual Medley, breaking a European Junior record in the process.
[12] He also won two bronze medals, in the 400m Individual Medley
[13] and the 4x200m Freestyle relay.
[14]
Dean was selected for the British team for the
2018 European Championships , his first senior competition, where he participated in the 200m Individual medley, 400m Individual medley, and won gold as part of the 4x200m freestyle team.
[15]
2021 – Olympic gold medals
In May 2021, Dean won gold as part of a team in
mixed 4 × 100 metre and
mixed 4 × 200 metre freestyle ,
[16]
[17] as well as silver in the
men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle and
4 × 200 metre freestyle relays at the
European Championships .
[18]
[19] He also won an individual bronze medal in the
200m freestyle .
[20]
On 27 July 2021, at the
2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Dean won the gold medal in the 200m freestyle, with his teammate
Duncan Scott winning the silver medal.
[21] He then won gold in the
men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay together with
James Guy ,
Duncan Scott , and
Matt Richards in a time of six minutes 58.58 seconds. Dean became the first male British swimmer to win two gold Olympic medals at the same games in 113 years, a feat later equalled in the same week by
James Guy and
Adam Peaty .
[22]
Dean was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours for services to swimming.
[23]
[24]
2022
At the
2022 World Aquatics Championships , Dean won the bronze medal in the
200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:44.98.
[25] His bronze medal was the first medal won by a swimmer representing Great Britain at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.
[26] He won his second bronze medal of the Championships in the
4×200 metre freestyle relay , splitting a 1:43.53 for the anchor leg of the relay to finish in a final time of 7:04.00.
[27] In the
4×100 metre medley relay he won his third bronze medal of the Championships, helping achieve a third-place finish in the final in 3:31.31 by swimming the anchor leg of the relay in 47.45 seconds.
[28]
[29]
[30]
Also in 2022, he was part of the team that won the gold medal in the
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
[31]
2023
In 2023, he won the gold medal at the
2023 British Swimming Championships in the
200 metres medley . It was the first time he had won the 200 metres event and his second British title, having previously won the 400 metres event in 2018.
[32] At the consequent
World Championships , Dean won four medals; his first World Championship gold in the
men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay , silver in the
200 metres freestyle behind teammate
Matt Richards , bronze behind
Léon Marchand of France, and teammate
Duncan Scott in the
200 metres individual medley and a further bronze in the
mixed 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay behind Australia and the United States.
2024
After finishing second in the
200 metres medley at the
2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships , Dean recorded a time that met the British Consideration criteria for a place at the
2024 Summer Olympics
[33] and was subsequently named in the British team for the Olympics.
[34]
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