William Paulson (born 17 November 1994) is a

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who competes for Canada. Paulson has dual Canadian-British citizenship, thanks to his French-Canadian mother and British father. Paulson was born in the UK and grew up in

Tetbury, Gloucestershire Tetbury is a town and civil parish inside the Cotswold district in England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in ...

and attended Leighterton Primary School and

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, before going to

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

for an undergraduate degree in biology. Paulson signed on to a one-year master’s program at

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. After competing in the

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he finished fifth in the indoor mile and fifth in the outdoor 1,500m in 2019. Paulson holds the Arizona State University record for fastest mile, running a time of 3:58.07 indoors in February 2019. Paulson won the Canadian 1,500m title in 2019 and also won a bronze medal at the

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. In 2020, he turned professional with the

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. In 2022, Paulson competed in the 1500m track event at the Commonwealth Games, placing tenth out of twelve.

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