Christopher James Mears (born 7 February 1993) is a British diver and DJ/Producer from Burghfield Common, near Reading, Berkshire.

[5][6] In January 2009 when he was fifteen, Mears suffered a ruptured spleen while he was training in Sydney for the Youth Olympic Festival.

Mears and Robinson-Baker won a silver medal during the 2011 FINA Diving World Series, were placed fourth in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Mears's father, Paul was nominated by the B.O.A to carry the Olympic Torch during the 70-day relay in recognition of the time he spent at his son's bedside during his severe illness in 2009.

[14] Mears spent the beginning of the year recovering from an ankle injury at the Team GB Intensive Rehabilitation Facility at Bisham Abbey[citation needed] and so did not compete at 2014 National Cup in Southend.

He also missed the first two legs of the 2014 FINA Diving World Series held in China and Dubai due to the injury.

Mears and Laugher first competed together that year in the World Diving Series in London in April 2014 and finished fourth.

[20] Mears was selected alongside synchro partner Laugher to represent Great Britain in the 2016 Rio Olympics where they won a gold medal in the Men's 3m Synchronised Diving event, scoring a total of 454.32 points beating the American pair Sam Dorman and Michael Hixon (450.21) and the Chinese pair Qin Kai and Cao Yuan (443.70).

[1] Laugher and Mears won three silvers in the 3m Synchro in four events of the Fina/NVC Diving World Series, two in China[21] and one in Russia.

[25] At the 2018 FINA Diving World Cup held in Wuhan, Mears and Laugher won a silver in 3 metre synchro springboard.

[28][29] On 6 August 2019, Mears announced his retirement from diving on Instagram, choosing to focus on his music career instead.

[36] He appeared in PETA's campaign against swim-with-dolphin parks, saying that although he and his parents had previously visited such places while on holiday, "We had absolutely no idea how these animals are treated.

"[37] Mears, along with Laugher, was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to diving.