John Gibson (athlete)

John Anthony Gibson (also John A. Gibson or Johnny Gibson ; born July 3, 1905 in Greenwich Village , New York City , United States, † December 29, 2006 in Newton , New Jersey , United States) was an American athlete and Olympian.

Gibson was born in New York City in 1905 but lived most of his life in Bloomfield, New Jersey . In 1928 he had successfully completed his studies in business administration at Fordham University , where he had set a world record in 1927 with 52.6 seconds on the 440-yard hurdles course . In 1928 he was a member of his country's athletics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where he finished fourth in one of the semi-finals on the 400-meter hurdles, and thus missed the final. For economic reasons, he gave up his own competitive sports career after the 1928 Olympics and worked as a trainer. He was the head coach of the Seton Hall University athletics team from 1945 to 1972 . In addition to his success as a track and field athlete and coach, he was also known as a functionary and founding member of the New Jersey Track and Field Officials Association and was active in university competitions on the east coast and also at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden . He has been inducted into several Halls of Fame , including those of Fordham University, Seton Hall University, Helms Hall, NJ Sports Authority, Garden State and Bloomfield. Gibson was married for 67 years to Dorothy Croughan, who died in 1997, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. Gibson himself died at the age of 101.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} John Anthony Johnny Gibson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Frank Litsky: "Johnny Gibson, 101, Track Coach With a Long Legacy, Is Dead" , The New York Times , January 1, 2007, viewed February 12, 2012