From battling Tom Daley to starring in China’s ‘Cirque du Soleil’: how Tom Chambers is diving into unknown waters
Former Scottish national diving champion swaps the ‘blood, sweat and tears’ of an elite athlete’s career to be an elite performer in a cultural acrobatic show
He competed against Tom Daley as a teenager, but while the English diving prodigy was busy scooping up another medal at the Commonwealth Games, former Scottish national champion Tom Chambers’ path in life has taken a slightly different turn.
Chambers is still jumping from great heights into water – but now the 31-year-old is wowing Chinese audiences as an elite performer rather than an elite athlete.
“Honestly I would never be able to make it the way he’s made it,” said Chambers, who even collaborated on British diving television game show Splash! with the Olympian.
“It’s probably more fun doing what I do than all the blood, sweat and tears he has to go through to be as good as he is.”
Watch The Han Show by Dragone (Chambers at 2 minutes)
Chambers is now a star in his own right in the Far East, where he performs breathtaking stunts off a 25-metre high board in Wuhan for The Han Show, a cultural acrobatic show directed by world-renowned Cirque du Soleil mastermind Franco Dragone.