Tony Ally

Antonio "Tony" Pietro Ally (born Ali, 17 August 1973) is a British diver.

Early life Ally was brought up in Catford, London. He was diagnosed with a hearing disorder during childhood. When he was nine, his brother died and later reasoned that hearing his brother's voice "spurred him on for 19 years". He used to enjoy kickboxing as a child but only as a means of training. He moved to Sheffield in 1992 and trained at Ponds Forge, a leisure complex.

Olympic Games In Ally's first Olympic Games he competed in the 1996 men's 3 metre springboard at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. Four years later he competed in the 2000 men's 3 metre springboard and qualified for the final, finishing in 12th place. He also competed in the synchronized event with Mark Shipman and came seventh.

At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he and his teammate Bob Morgan publicised the plight of British athletes and the lack of funded support by publicly selling his British Olympic Team kit to pay off loans. This gained notoriety in the British newspapers, being seen as the nadir of an already poor British performance that saw the GB team finish 36th in the medal table, winning a single gold medal. It was regularly cited as an example of how poorly funded British sport was before lottery funding of athletes was introduced in time for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Leon Taylor, a British diver who won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suggested that Morgan & Ally's actions shamed the British Olympic Association into arranging for more professional funding of British Olympians. his first of five Commonwealth Games appearances. In 1998 he was a bronze medalist in the 3 metres springboard, at the Games in Kuala Lumpur. He followed this success up by winning double silver in 2002 before going on to be the flag bearer for the English contingent in 2006 in Melbourne where he won another silver medal in the synchronized three metre springboard.

European Championships Ally won gold in the European Championships for the three metre event in 1999, being the first British diver to win the medal. as part of a panel discussion about Tom Daley's diving progression. Ally worked as the Assistant Head Coach of diving at Sheffield Diving Club from 2016 to 2023, after which he moved to Perth to work as a diving coach for Diving Western Australia.