Sporting Heroes Month: Chris Mears

Presented in association with MaxiNutrition.This is it – our final athlete for Sporting Heroes Month! Stay tuned tomorrow when we’ll bring you a round-up of your favourite sports stars from the past month. In the meantime, we’ve saved one of the best til last – here’s diving champ (and friend of Attitude – he’s graced our pages on more than one occasion) Chris Mears…Top Sporting Achievement:

Won gold in the 2014 Commonwealth Games for the 3m Synchronized Springboard.

Better Half: Chris has a girlfriend but lives with his diving partner Jack Laugher.

Best Attribute: Like most divers, his entire body.

Sporting Quote: “I know that I have it in me, it’s just a matter of going out there and doing it.”

Special Weapon: Chris is notorious for his 3m springboard in both synchronized and single.

Style: Chris has a very street-smart look, but has taken part in many swimwear fashion shoots for a number of brands and magazines.

Training Tip: Chris looks back on hard experiences during training and uses them as motivators: “No matter how low I feel in training, I know that I’ve been lower.”

In The Game: Chris is a Reading-born diver for England.

Wins: Gold – 2010 British Championship: 3m synchronised.

Gold – 2011 British Championship: 3m synchronised.

Gold – 2012 British Championship: 3m synchronised.

Gold – 2014 Glasgow Commonwealh Games: synchronised 3m springboard.

Attitude: Following a ruptured spleen injury that left him with a 5% chance of survival and being told he’s never dive again, Chris is still competing. Now that is determination!