Researching Akiko Thomson
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 40015 people with the Thomson surname? In that year Thomson was ranked number 74 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Akiko Thomson on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Akiko Thomson and the Thomson Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 46293 people with the Thomson surname in the UK? Thomson is now ranked number 90 for popularity in the UK. |
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Thomson Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 24306 people with the Thomson surname in the USA? Thomson is ranked number 149 for popularity in the USA. |
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Akiko Thomson
Gillian Akiko Thomson (born October 8, 1974) is a Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer. She is the most accomplished Filipina swimmer in the Southeast Asian Games having won eight gold medals in the biennial multi-sport meet between 1987 and 1993. She is the youngest of three children born to a Japanese mother from Hiroshima, Hiroko Nakamura and American father, James Marsh Thomson. Her older siblings are Julia and Joshua. When she was young, she and her family moved to Manila where her father, who had previous experience with the United States Office of Naval Intelligence, became the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines in the latter years of the Marcos dictatorship.
Thomson began swimming at the age of six. She started to represent the Philippines in several swimming competitions locally and abroad after becoming a naturalized Filipino citizen through an Act of Congress by the age of 12. Among the tournaments she competed in are the 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993 South East Asian Games, where she won eight gold medals and also in three editions of the Summer Olympic Games in 1988, 1992 and 1996 .
Thomson graduated with a degree in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and then took her masters in Business Administration at the Ateneo de Manila University. After her retirement from competitive swimming, she became a television host and journalist with Probe Productions at ABS-CBN. She is married to Chips Guevara and had a baby in 2011.
At present, Thomson is the current president of Philippine Olympians Association, replacing former president Art Macapagal.
Source: Akiko Thomson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Thomson
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