Blake Aldridge

aldridge was the first british diver to win the world junior 10 metre diving championships in pardubici czekslovakia

Aldridge's original synchro partner Gavin Brown was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Southampton on 28 April 2007.

[1] During the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics he took part in the Men's 10m Synchronised event[2][3] with his new diving partner, Tom Daley, 12 years his junior.

[5] On 19 February 2010, Aldridge was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting wine and causing actual bodily harm to a male security guard at a Tesco store in Croydon, Greater London.

[8] He has had injury problems early in his career, notably detached retinas from a bad dive which required laser surgery.