U.S. competitive Olympic diver and internet celebrity Tyler Downs was born on July 19, 2003. To begin his life, Tyler Downs entered this world on July 19, 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Seven children were born to Theresa and Donnie Downs, and he is the youngest. In 2021, he graduated from Laurel Springs Online School.
Downs has won the U.S. junior diving championship a whopping six times. Downs has participated in the U.S. Junior Pan American Games three times: in 2015, 2017, and 2019.
Both the 2019 Sagamihara and Beijing World Series were on his schedule. For 2018, he won the silver medal in the 1-meter event at the World Junior Diving Championships.
He earned gold in the 3-meter and synchronised 3-meter events at the 2019 Junior Pan American Championships, and bronze in the 1-meter and platform events.
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Tyler Downs Makes First Olympic Team as David Boudia Misses His Fourth
Tyler Downs brushed away tears of pleasure on Sunday night, his right hand adorned with an Olympic ring from Team USA.
David Boudia was the owner of the ring. U.S. Olympic divers from prior teams often lend their rings to current competitors, who in turn give them back after winning their own medals.
According to 17-year-old Downs, Boudia’s synchro partner Steele Johnson actually gave him the ring on the pool deck “because David was still executing his last dive.”
For Boudia, that was not a good sign. While Downs took first place in the men’s 3-meter springboard event on the final day of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
Diving, Boudia disappointingly failed to make it into the team for the fourth consecutive Olympics.
Tyler Downs Represented U.S. in Tokyo Olympics
Many promising young athletes are currently in Tokyo for the Summer Games. Included in the group is Tyler Downs, who is 18 years old. He’s competing in the men’s 3m springboard event for Team USA.
It was only last month that he was accepted to participate in the trials in the United States. He has now arrived at the Olympics and is prepared to compete.
After winning the U.S. Olympic trials in the Men’s 3 metre springboard and besting his idol, David Boudia.
Downs earned the right to represent the United States at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In Tokyo, however, he was eliminated in the first round, placing 23rd out of a total of 29 divers.
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Conclusion
The 32-year-old father of three ended 4.45 points behind Andrew Capobianco, who moved up from sixth position to grab the other berth. C
apobianco is a diver who has won four Olympic medals on the 10-meter platform, including the gold in the individual event at the Olympic Games London 2012.
Capobianco and Mike Hixon, an individual 3-meter springboard competitor at the 2016 Olympics.
Who briefly moved into second place before settling for fourth, had already qualified for Team USA in the synchronised event.
