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Thomas Stewart Bosworth (born 17 January 1990) is a
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two-time
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race walker who holds three World bests, including the World Best for the 1Mile race walk, 5:31.08. He also holds six British records, won 13 British Championships gold medals, a silver
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finalist. Bosworth is currently ranked 1st overall in the UK for 20 km. He was also selected to carry the
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, Leeds.


Career

Bosworth currently trains full-time at the UK Race Walking centre in
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, at Leeds Met University. He holds British records for walking 3 km, 5 km, 10 km and 20 km, with his Personal Best for 20 km at 1:19:38. He first set the 20 km British record in Dudince,
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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 also the British Record Holder for the 10 km race walk, set in 2015, along with the 5000m race walk, set in
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at the 2018 British indoor team trials to qualify for the World Indoor Championships. Along with the World Record for the 1Mile race walk won at London Diamond League, 2017, Bosworth is World Record holder for the 3000m indoor race walk at IAAF Indoor Grand Prix
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, 2018, and the 3000m outdoor race walk at the Muller Anniversary Games,
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, 2018. He has won six British Outdoor Championships in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, along with six British Indoor Championships, his first in 2015 followed by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Bosworth qualified for the
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after coming second at the
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.


Achievements


Medals


Records held


Personal bests


International competitions


Media and public speaking

Bosworth has made several media appearances, including his appearance on Sky TV’s show “Game Changers”, commentating for the
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at the
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, and again for
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at the
2015 World Athletics Championships The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...
. Championing
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and
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in sport alongside his athletic career, Bosworth has spoken openly about both. Bosworth came out as gay on the BBC's
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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 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
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during the Rio Olympics. In 2018, he said that he was ready to risk prison to defend LGBT rights in Qatar during the
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. In publications by the BBC, SkySports and the
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among many others, Bosworth speaks about his mental health and how he overcame a period of depression. Alongside media appearances, he now also regularly visits schools and universities, to talk about his experiences as a professional athlete, LGBT equality, the importance of mental health and how sport can be of great benefit. He has also spoken to the Culture, Media and Sport parliamentary committee, met with the Chairman of the FA to discuss homophobia in football, written piece for the Times Sport Newspaper on “drugs in sport”, addressed National Governing Bodies on behalf of
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and spoken at Wembley for Stonewall F.C.


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