Jack Laugher
Jack Laugher in 2012
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| Full name | Jack David Laugher |
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30 January 1995 Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 64.86 kg (143 lb) |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Club | City Of Leeds Diving Club |
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Jack David Laugher MBE (pronounced LOR /lɔːr/) (born 30 January 1995) is a British diver. A specialist on springboard, he competes in individual springboard events, and in synchronised events with Chris Mears. The duo won Britain's first ever Olympic gold medal in diving by winning the men's synchronised 3m springboard event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. A week later, Laugher won a silver in the men's individual 3m springboard at the same Games, becoming the first British diver to win multiple Olympic diving medals at the same Games.
Laugher was a double Commonwealth Games champion for England at the 2014 Games in Glasgow, and he was also the first British diver to win two medals at the 2015 World Championships. In 2015, Laugher won the overall title in the FINA Diving World Series for 3 metre springboard.
Laugher was born on 30 January 1995 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, to David and Jackie Laugher. He was educated at Ripon Grammar School, a co-educational state grammar school in Ripon, North Yorkshire.
Laugher became interested in diving when he was seven during a family visit to Harrogate Hydro Swimming Pool and a lifeguard told him to go for diving lessons. He began to learn diving at the Harrogate and District Diving Club at the Hydro. He broke his upper arm when he was 14 during a trampolining competition, and had a metal plate inserted to hold his humerus bone together.
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