Bruce Ibbetson
{{Short description|American rower (born 1953)}}
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| birth_place = Hollywood, Los Angeles, U.S.
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Bruce Bernard Ibbetson (born January 13, 1953) is a former American competitive rower and Olympic silver medalist.
Education
Bruce is a 1975 graduate of the University of California, Irvine.
Olympics
Ibbetson qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was not able to compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal many years later.{{cite book|last1=Caroccioli|first1=Tom|last2=Caroccioli|first2=Jerry|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|date=2008 |publisher=New Chapter Press|location=Highland Park, IL|isbn=978-0942257403|pages=243–253}} He was a member of the American men's eights team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ib/bruce-ibbetson-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418045106/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ib/bruce-ibbetson-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Bruce Ibbetson}}
References
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Category:Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States in rowing
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Congressional Gold Medal recipients
Category:Rowers at the 1979 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing
Category:University of California, Irvine alumni
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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