Duff Gibson
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| Born | August 11, 1966 (age 57) Vaughan, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Duff Gibson (born August 11, 1966) is a Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1999 to 2006. He was born in Vaughan, Ontario. His father was born on December 13, 1937. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton, narrowly beating out his teammate Jeff Pain. His victory made the 39-year-old surpass ice hockey player Al MacInnis as the oldest gold medalist in Canadian Winter Olympic history. More significantly, Gibson became the oldest individual gold medalist in the history of the Winter Games, a record previously held by Norway's Magnar Solberg, who was 35 when he won the gold medal in the 20 km individual biathlon event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo; he held the record until Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km biathlon sprint aged 40 at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He retired immediately following the 2006 Games in Turin.
Gibson also finished tenth in the men's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He also won two medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 2004 and a bronze in 2005. Gibson's best overall seasonal Skeleton World Cup finish was second in the men's event in 2003-4.
In October 2009, Gibson is pairing up with the Stephen Lewis Foundation to raise money for HIV/AIDS affected families in Africa. The Gold medal Olympian carried a 20-litre jug of water approximately 12 km through Calgary from Canada Olympic Park to his son's school. The "dare" is part of the foundations current A Dare to Remember campaign.
References
- 2002 men's skeleton results
- Duff Gibson at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- "Gibson, De-La-Hunty, Lueders named Canadian coaches". International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation. (1 July 2010 article accessed 2 July 2010.)
- List of men's skeleton World Cup champions since 1987.
- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928
- Men's skeleton world championship medalists since 1989
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Canadian people of English descent
- Canadian skeleton racers
- Male skeleton racers
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic medalists in skeleton
- Olympic skeleton racers of Canada
- People from Vaughan
- Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Sledding sportspeople from Ontario
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics