Thomas Gossland (born May 10, 1989) is a Canadian competition

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who represented Canada at the

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in the men's 4×100-metre freestyle relay. Gossland finished tenth in the relay with his teammates Brent Hayden,

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and Colin Russell. In 2013 Gossland won a bronze medal at the

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in the 4x50 mixed freestyle relay. Gossland grew up and learned to swim in

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. He then moved to Vancouver in 2007 to attend the University of British Columbia, where he competed with the UBC Thunderbirds, UBC's swimming team, and broke records set by Hayden, a future team member in the relay. He then earned a spot on the 2012 Canadian Olympic team at the Olympic trials. He never went to another Olympic Games. However he decided to train as a physics teacher at a secondary school in England and is now a teacher in Thailand, along with being a coach at a swimming club in the same region.

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1989 births Living people Canadian male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Canada Sportspeople from Richmond, British Columbia Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics UBC Thunderbirds swimmers University of British Columbia alumni 20th-century Canadian sportspeople 21st-century Canadian sportspeople {{Canada-swimming-bio-stub