Tom Bosworth

Tom Bosworth

Bosworth in training for Commonwealth Games 2010
Personal information
Birth name	Thomas Stewart Bosworth
Full name	Tom Bosworth
Nickname(s)	'Bozzy'
Nationality	British
Born	(1990-01-17) 17 January 1990 Sevenoaks
Residence	Leeds
Website	www.tombosworth.com
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
Olympic finals	6th
Personal best(s)	1:20:13 for 20k
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast 20 km race walk

Thomas Stewart "Tom" Bosworth (born 17 January 1990) is a British race walker who holds the World Record for the 1Mile race walk. He also holds British records for walking 3 km, 5 km, 10 km and 20 km. He is currently ranked 1st overall in the UK for 20 km. He set the 20 km British record in Dudince, Slovakia in March 2016 to better a 20 km 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.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Great Britain
2009	European Race Walking Cup (U20)	Metz, France	39th	10 km walk	52:01
2011	European Race Walking Cup	Olhão, Portugal	29th	20 km walk	1:32:48
2012	World Race Walking Cup	Saransk, Russia	72nd	20 km walk	1:28:43
2013	European Race Walking Cup	Dudince, Slovakia	31st	20 km walk	1:27:42
2014	World Race Walking Cup	Taicang, China	43rd	20 km walk	1:22:53
	European Championships	Zurich, Switzerland	12th	20 km walk	1:23:17
2015	European Race Walking Cup	Murcia, Spain	16th	20 km walk	1:23:54
	World Championships	Beijing, China	24th	20 km walk	1:23:58
2016	World Race Walking Cup	Rome, Italy	34th	20 km walk	1:22:55
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6th	20 km walk	1:20:13
2017	European Race Walking Cup	Podebrady, Czech Republic	4th	20 km walk	1:21:21
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	DQ - Disqualified	20 km walk	DQ - Disqualified at 12 km for “lifting” whilst in first place
Representing  England
2009	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Lugano, Switzerland	8th	10 km walk	45:29
2010	XIX Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	11th	20 km walk	1:30:44
2010	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Bedford, England	7th	20 km walk	1:28:24
2012	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Lugano, Switzerland	28th	20 km walk	1:25:49
2012	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	A Coruña, Spain	13th	20 km walk	1:24:49
2013	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Podebrady, Czech Republic	14th	20 km walk	1:24:44
2014	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Lugano, Switzerland	21st	20 km walk	1:25:45
2014	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Podebrady, Czech Republic	10th	20 km walk	1:22:20
2015	EAA Race Walking Permit Race	Lugano, Switzerland	4th	20 km walk	1:22:33

Statistics

Personal life

Bosworth came out as gay on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show on 13 October 2015.^[2] 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 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.^[3] He proposed to and was accepted by his now-fiancé, Harry Dineley on Copacabana Beach during the Rio Olympics.^[4]

References

External links

• Tom Bosworth at IAAF