Tom Bosworth
Bosworth in training for Commonwealth Games 2010
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Thomas Stewart Bosworth |
| Full name | Tom Bosworth |
| Nickname(s) | 'Bozzy' |
| Nationality | British |
| Born |
17 January 1990 Sevenoaks |
| Residence | Leeds |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Sport | Race walking |
| Event(s) | 20km |
| College team | Leeds Beckett Uni |
| Club | Tonbridge AC |
| Coached by | Andi Drake (Peter Selby) |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 1:20:13 for 20k |
Thomas Stewart "Tom" Bosworth (born 17 January 1990) is a British race walker he holds the British records for 3k, 5k, 10k and 20k.. He is currently ranked 1st overall in the UK for 20 km. He set the 20km British record in Dudince, Slovakia in March 2016 to better a 20km race walk mark set by Ian McCombie in 1988 clocking 80:41 taking 81 seconds off McCombie’s record, which was set just over a year before Bosworth was even born. He is the British Record Holder for the 10k race walk, 39:36, set in 2015 along with the 5000m race walk, 18:39.47, set in Sheffield at the 2017 British indoor team trials to qualify for the European Indoor Championships.
Bosworth currently trains full-time at the UK Race Walking centre in Leeds, at Leeds Met University.
Bosworth was also selected to carry the Olympic Torch through Potternewton, Leeds.
Bosworth came out as gay on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show on 13 October 2015. In the interview he explained that his family, friends and fellow sports athletes had known that he was gay for a number of years and the coming out was to a wider audience part to answer lingering questions from fans and to be himself. In the interview he told the BBC that he had been in "a really happy relationship" for the last four-and-a-half years. He proposed to and was accepted by his now-fiancé, Harry Dineley on Copacabana Beach during the Rio Olympics.
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