Thomas Gibson

Thomas Gibson (born 6 May 1982 in Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian lightweight rower. He is a twelve-time Australian national champion, a world champion and a dual Olympian.

State and club rowing Gibson's senior club rowing was done from the Huon Rowing Club in Tasmania.

From 2004 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2012 Gibson was selected to represent Tasmania in the men's lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He stroked the 2004, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Tasmanian state fours to victory, and also rowed to wins in 2005 and 2006.

Wearing Huon Rowing Club colours he contested national lightweight titles at the Australian Rowing Championships from 2004. He competed in the lightweight coxless pair championship in 2005; the lightweight four in 2005, 2007, 2008; and the lightweight men's eight in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010. He won national titles in 2005 (the pair and the eight); in 2006 and 2010 in the eight; in 2008 in the four and the eight.

International representative rowing Gibson was first selected for Australia in an U23 coxless four in 2002. They raced at the World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne before competing at the 2002 World Rowing U23 Championships in Genoa where they won silver. He was the sole member of that U23 lightweight four to remain in the crew into 2003 when they contested the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne before winning a gold medal at the 2003 U23 World Championships in Belgrade. Gibson was back again to represent Australia at the elite world level in 2014. He competed in the lightweight coxless four at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne and then at the 2014 World Championships. In Gibson's last Australian representative appearance the four finished fifth.