Matthew Dixon (diver)
.jpg) Dixon at the 22nd FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Kyiv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Matthew Lewis Dixon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 2000 Plymouth, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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.
Career[edit]
2012–13[edit]
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]
2014: Commonwealth Games[edit]
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]
2017[edit]
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]
2018–2019[edit]
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]
Achievements[edit]
| 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 |
References[edit]
References and notes[edit]
- ^ "British Gas Diving Championships 2013". British Swimming. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013.
- ^ British Gas Diving Championships 2014 | British Swimming Archived 6 August 2014 at archive.today
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Men's 10m Platform Final". results.glasgow2014.com.
- ^ "Dixon and Williams Land Gatineau Gold". 10 April 2017.
- ^ "Dixon and Williams land gold and silver to close 2017 European Juniors". Swimming.org. 2 July 2017.
- ^ "Williams and Dixon win European 10m Synchro bronze\zfsyr=15 June 2017". Swimming.org.
- ^ "Dixon soars to ten metre title". British Swimming.
- ^ "Dixon and Williams land gold and silver to close 2017 European Juniors". Swimming.org. 2 July 2017.
- ^ "Commonwealth gold for daley and goodfellow". Swimming.org. 13 April 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018.
- ^ "Dixon and Williams claim world silver medal for Great Britain in Kiev". Plymouth Sports Gazette. 28 July 2018.
- ^ "European Championships 2018: Jack Laugher wins second diving gold in Glasgow". BBC Sport. 9 August 2018.
- ^ "Matthew Dixon and Noah Willams land ;unexpected' bronze for Great Britain". Swimming.org. 9 August 2019.
- A ^ Preliminaries
External links[edit]
- Matthew Dixon at World Aquatics
- Matthew Dixon at British Swimming
- Matthew Dixon at Team GB (archived)
- Matthew Dixon at Team England
- Matthew Dixon at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Matthew Dixon at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Matthew Dixon at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Matthew Dixon on Twitter
- Style '20 Happy 2020 PROJECT - NTT docomo (in Japanese)
- Style '20 マシュー選手 紹介ムービー - YouTube (in Japanese)
- 2000 births
- Living people
- British male divers
- English male divers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Plymouth, Devon
- 21st-century British sportsmen
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2015 European Games
- Divers at the 2023 European Games
- European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain
- European Games medalists in diving