Duff Gibson

Medal record
Duff Gibson
Skeleton
Competitor for  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold	2006 Turin	Men
World Championships
Gold	2004 Königssee	Men
Bronze	2005 Calgary	Men

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 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.

Off the ice, Gibson is a firefighter at the Calgary International Airport.

For the 2010 Winter Olympics, a picture of Gibson in competition from the previous Olympics was used as a pictogram for the skeleton events. In June 2010, Gibson was announced as a coach for the Canadian skeleton team. Duff Gibson is also the nephew of Edward Gibson who competed in the 1984 summer olympics as a rower for the Canadian team but only came in 7th place.

References

• 2002 men's skeleton results
• Duff Gibson at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing
• Gibson, De-La-Hunty, Lueders named Canadian coaches. at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (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

Persondata
Name	Gibson, Duff
Alternative names
Short description	skeleton racer
Date of birth	August 11, 1966
Place of birth	Vaughan, Ontario
Date of death
Place of death

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