Bruce Kidd

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Bruce Kidd (born July 26, 1943 in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian long-distance runner , historian , sports historian and science manager.

Athletic career

Bruce Kidd is one of the most successful long distance runners in Canada. He won 18 national Canadian (+ 2 US American indoor) championships and set 15 national records and 4 junior world records. In 1962 he won the British Empire Games over 6 miles in Perth (at 37 degrees without a shadow) and was also third over 3 miles. He started athletics at the age of 13 and was already one of the best Canadian middle-distance youngsters at the age of 14. He ran for Canada in 1964 at the Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, both the 5000 m and the 10000 m. His best 5000m time was 13: 43.8 (1962).

Academic career

During his bachelor's degree, he stayed in Canada, unlike many other athletes, and did not accept an American scholarship. He received his BA in Political Economy (1965, University of Toronto ) and an MA in Adult Education (1968, University of Chicago ). In 1970 he became a lecturer at the Department of Sports Science at the University of Toronto. Here he mainly taught sports politics. Finally, he completed another MA in history (1980, University of York ) and a PhD in history (1990, University of York). Kidd became politically active with the Canadian socialists at an early stage, and took a firm stand against apartheid not only in sport. For Running Magazine he was considered an agitator . As a socialist, he dealt with the history of workers' sport in Canada.

In 1973 he became an assistant professor, an associate professor in 1979 and a professor in 1991 after his doctorate. From 1991 to 1998 he was the director of the Institute for Sports Science, which under his direction was expanded into the Faculty of Kinesiology. Kidd was Dean (1998-2010) and Warden of Hart House , one of the university's traditional academic institutions. After his retirement as a professor, in 2014 he was initially acting vice-president of the University of Toronto Scarborough and for the term 2015-2018 as president of this university in the system of the University of Toronto. The WorldCat lists 115 works by him (2015). He is the chairman of the Canadian Olympic Academy.

Honors

  • 1961 and 1962 Canada's Athlete of the Year.
  • 1961 Lou Marsh Trophy.
  • 1966 inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame as an athlete
  • 1968 inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
  • 1985, UNESCO award for his fight against apartheid
  • 1988 inducted into the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame.
  • 1994 Admission to the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame as an official (so far as the only athlete and official)
  • 1997 The first Bruce Kidd Trophy for Leadership is presented at the Canadian Sports Awards
  • 2001, IOC Medal of Honor for Education and Sport
  • 2004 Officer of the Order of Canada for his lifelong fight against sexism and racism in sports in Canada and around the world
  • 2007, Dr. hc (Law) Dalhousie University
  • Member of the Canadian Hall of Fame (Chair of the Admissions Committee)
  • Honorary Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee
  • Previously chaired the Advisory Body on Sport des the Commonwealth
  • Chair of the International Development through Sport Committee

Works

  • The Death of Hockey (with John Mcfarlane, 1972)
  • The Political Economy of Sport (1979)
  • Tom Longboat (1980)
  • Hockey Showdown (1980)
  • Who's a Soccer Player (1980)
  • Athletes' Rights in Canada (with Mary Eberts, 1982)
  • The Struggle for Canadian Sport (1996)
  • Sports and Masculinity (2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Kidd. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  2. ^ No level playing field: Bruce Kidd in South Africa. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 27, 2015 ; accessed on December 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.africafiles.org
  3. ↑ Bruce Kidd: Agitator. Intellectual. Runner. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  4. ^ Bruce Kidd: Worker Sport in the new World. The Canadian Story. Arnd Krüger , James Riordan (Eds.): The Story of Worker Sport , pp. 143–156. Human Kinetics, Champaign, Ill. 1996, ISBN 0-87322-874-X
  5. ↑ Bruce Kidd. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  6. ^ Profile of Bruce Kidd, former star athlete and fitness advocate. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Going the distance: Bruce Kidd to be honored at Dal's convocation. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kidd, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario