Tom Dean (swimmer)
British competitive swimmer (born 2000)
Thomas William Darnton Dean (born 2 May 2000) is a British competitive freestyle swimmer. He is a triple Olympic gold medallist, winning gold individually in 200 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics and as part of a team in 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Dean 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 the World Championships, Olympic Games and European Championships and, for England, at the Commonwealth Games.
Early life
Dean was born to Jacquie Hughes and Jonathan Dean in London, the second of five children. He grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was a pupil at the Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. He took up swimming when he was eight, and joined the Maidenhead Marlins.
He went to study mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in 2018 while training at the National Centre for Swimming in Bath.
Career
At the 2017 European Junior Championships, Dean won the gold medal in the 200m Individual Medley and the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley.
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