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Medal record 
Mathew HelmMen's Diving Competitor for 
AustraliaOlympic Games Silver 2004 Athens 10m Platform Bronze 2004 Athens Synchro Platform World Championships Gold 2003 Barcelona Synchro Platform Silver 2003 Barcelona 10m Platform Bronze 2001 Fukuoka 10m Platform Commonwealth Games Gold 2006 Melbourne 10m Platform Gold 2006 Melbourne Synchro Platform
Mathew Helm (born December 9, 1980 in Bourke, New South Wales) is an Australian diver who won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 10 metre platform. He was in first place at the end of the preliminary round and the semi-finals, but was passed by Chinese diver Hu Jia in the finals. He was one of only eleven openly gay athletes who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[1][2]In the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, he won the 10 metre platform Gold medals in the Individual and Syncro.
References
- ^ Olympic diver is openly gay - Outsports
- ^ Matt Helm: This diver makes a splash in and out of the pool. DNA magazine, issue 83.
World Diving Champions in Men's Synchronized 10 metre Platform 1998: Tian Liang and Sun Shuwei (CHN) • 2001: Tian Liang and Hu Jia (CHN) • 2003: Mathew Helm and Robert Newbery (AUS) • 2005: Dmitriy Dobroskok and Gleb Galperin (RUS) • 2007: Huo Liang and Lin Yue (CHN) • 2009: Huo Liang and Lin Yue (CHN) • 2011: Qiu Bo and Huo Liang (CHN)
Commonwealth Diving Champions in Men's 10 metre Platform 1930: Alfred Phillips (CAN) • 1934: Tommy Mather (ENG) • 1938: Doug Tomalin (ENG) • 1950: Peter Heatly (SCO) • 1954: Bill Patrick (CAN) • 1958: Peter Heatly (SCO) • 1962 – 1966: Brian Phelps (ENG) • 1970 – 1974: Don Wagstaff (AUS) • 1978 – 1982: Chris Snode (ENG) • 1986: Craig Rogerson (AUS) • 1990: Bobby Morgan (WAL) • 1994: Michael Murphy (AUS) • 1998: Alexandre Despatie (CAN) • 2002: Peter Waterfield (ENG) • 2006: Mathew Helm (AUS) • 2010: Tom Daley (ENG)
Categories:- Australian divers
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- Divers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Gay sportspeople
- LGBT sportspeople from Australia
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Newcastle, New South Wales
- Australian Institute of Sport alumni
- Olympic medalists in diving
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs
- Diving (acrobatics) biography stubs
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