Openly gay Olympic champion diver Matthew Mitcham returned from an abdominal injury to take the Australian diving championship in the 10m platform on Sunday. With just two weeks of preparation he blew away the sub-Olympic competition. According to the Associated Press, Mitcham is putting all his eggs in the 10m platform basket for the London [...]
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Moment #10: Matthew Mitcham wins diving gold medal in Beijing
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Diving, 2008. You’ve seen the likes of it in big Hollywood movies, but you’ve rarely seen it in real life. The hopes of gay fans around the world hung on one single dive. In the 10m finals in Beijing, Matthew Mitcham needed a [...]
Matthew Mitcham wins 4 diving silvers
Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wound up with four silver medals at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in India. The Games feature athletes from the 54 nations of what was formerly the British Commonwealth. Mitcham lost the 10-meter platform event to Tom Daley of Britain, who had one dive that had perfect 10s. Share on Facebook
Matthew Mitcham perfect in diving final
Matthew Mitcham must feel like China is a home-pool advantage for him. First, he won the gold medal in the 10-meter men’s platform at the Beijing Olympics, coming from behind on the final dive. And Sunday he won the 10-meter event again at the FINA World Cup in Beijing. And he needed a perfect score [...]
Matthew Mitcham photos by William Yang
Photographer William Yang recently got Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham to sit down for a photo shoot. I love the outcome. Yang took raw images of Mitcham and his great smile and wrote on the prints. The series is called simply “Photographing Matthew Mitcham” and is presently displayed at a gallery in Sydney. Unfortunately, it looks [...]
Mitcham, Neich named influential Aussies
Australia’s big gay Web site SameSame has released their list of 2009′s most influential gay Aussie, and Matthew Mitcham is one of the highlights. The Olympic gold medalist’s story from 2008 still resonates with people: Openly gay and taking on the Chinese in the pool. Also on the list was Aaron Neich (right, in the [...]
Mitcham does not medal in 10M diving final
Matthew Mitcham misfired on his final dive and finished out of the medals in the 10-meter platform event at the FINA world swimming and diving championships in Rome. This was the same event where the openly gay Aussie shocked the world last year at the Olympics by winning the gold with a sensational final dive. [...]
Video: Matthew Mitcham endorses Gay Games
Olympic gold medalist has taped a video encouraging people to participate in the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany. Not much to it, but Mitcham has not shied away from working with the gay sports movement. Share on Facebook
Three athletes make AfterElton Hot 100
AfterElton has unveiled their Hot 100 for the year, and not surprisingly there are very few athletes on the list. Only three sports figures made it this year: Ben Cohen (No. 64, right), David Beckham (No. 24) and Matthew Mitcham (No. 15). According to AfterElton’s Michael Jensen, Mitcham has the highest debut of anyone on [...]
Mitcham still puzzled by lack of sponsors
In an interview with the Telegraph of London, openly gay gold medal-winning diver Matthew Mitcham says he remains puzzled by his lack of endorsements and hopes that homophobia is not the cause. In February, Mitcham signed his only deal to date with an Australian telecom. Although he insists he has had nothing but positive feedback [...]
Another Oz award for Mitcham
From Down Under comes news that Olympics diving goldist Matt Mitcham has added yet another major award to his fistful of medals. The coveted Sports Performer of the Year award came to him the other night in Melbourne. Mitcham was one of eight outstanding athletes who were nominated for the 2008 award, including triathlete Emma Snowsill, swimmer Stephanie Rice [...]
Mitcham co-winner of Oz’s highest sport award
Our reader friend in Australia, Lawrie Fabian, has this report on Matthew Mitcham. Outsports readers will remember Lawrie as founding President and Coach of Melbourne’s Glamourhead Sharks Aquatic Club, the first gay and lesbian swim team in Victoria. He has coached swimmers and triathletes to personal bests at World Masters Games and Gay Games. We [...]