Thomas Paradiso (born December 7, 1979) is an American Olympian in lightweight rowing.
Rowing career Tom began rowing at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia in 1995 and was a member of the National Champion Youth 4x in 1998. Tom continued his education and rowing career as a member of the Heavyweight Mens Team at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2002. Tom first competed at the World Championships in 2001 in Lucerne, Switzerland in the Lightweight 8+, winning a Bronze Medal. From 2001 to 2012, Tom competed at the World Championships eight times and made two Pan American Games Teams, competing as a lightweight and heavyweight, rowing port and starboard, in sweep rowing and as a sculler.
Olympics 2008 was a rowing career high-point for Tom when he won a gold medal at the July 2008 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim with the lightweight men's eight. At the August 2008 Summer Olympics, he came eleventh with the lightweight coxless four.
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