Kokoro Frost

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Kokoro Frost, full name Thomas Kokoro Frost, is a Samoan New Zealand swimmer born on 14 September 2002. He has represented Samoa at the Commonwealth Games and Pacific Games and holds several Samoan age-group and open swimming records. He comes from the villages of Manase and Fasito’outa. He went to Palmerston North Boys’ High School and Kapiti College, and studies Intercultural Communications at Victoria University of Wellington. He began swimming in 2008 and trains with the Ōtaki Titans Swimming Club on the Kapiti Coast, coached by his mother Seuga Frost and Olympian Jonathan Winter. In 2019, he reached the finals in the 50m backstroke at the Pacific Games in Apia. On 14 July 2022, he was selected for Samoa’s team for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, where he competed in the 50m and 100m Butterfly, 50m and 100m backstroke, and the mixed 4x100m Medley and Freestyle relays. In December 2022, he was part of Samoa’s team at the 16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Melbourne.