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Place of Birth: Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
About Duff Gibson
- 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 medallist in Canadian Winter Olympic history.
- More significantly, Gibson became the oldest individual gold medallist 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.
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