Anthony Mosse was the standard bearer for New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 competitive swimming

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 through the 1980s. He swam at his first Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

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, in Brisbane

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, Australia

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 in 1982, when he was 17. Two years later, at the Los Angeles

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 Olympics

1984 Summer Olympics

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, he made the final in his two butterfly events.

At the 1986 Commonwealth Games

1986 Commonwealth Games

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 in Edinburgh

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, Scotland

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, he won gold and silver and in the same year was second in the 200m butterfly final at the world championships. Mosse developed his career in the United States

United States

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 but continued to swim for New Zealand, gaining a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

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 in Seoul

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, Korea

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. He rounded out his superlative career when he won the 200m butterfly at the 1990 Commonwealth Games

1990 Commonwealth Games

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 in Auckland

Auckland

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Mosse gained a BA(Hons) from Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in 1989 and later completed an MBA at the same university. He and his American wife Gail have two children. He is now a merchant banker in San Francisco, but continues to be involved in swimming and is a regular commentator for TVNZ (including Beijing, 2008).

External links

• Biography at New Zealand Olympic Committee website
• Joseph Romanos meets Mosse at Beijing, 2008
• sports-reference