Akiko Thomson

Akiko Thomson
Personal information
Birth name	Gillian Akiko Thomson
National team	Philippines
Born	October 8, 1974 (age 50); Washington, DC, United States
Sport
Sport	Swimming

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Gillian Akiko Thomson (born October 8, 1974 in Washington, DC, USA) is a Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer. She is the youngest of three children born to an American father, Marshall Thomson, and a Japanese mother from Hiroshima, Hiroko Nakamura. 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 and 1991 Southeast Asian Games, where she won seven gold medals, and the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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