Bruce Kidd

{{Short description|Canadian distance runner and professor}}

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Bruce Kidd, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (born July 26, 1943) is a Canadian academic, author, and athlete.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he attended Malvern Collegiate Institute{{Cite web |last=Stephens |first=Laurie |date=April 24, 2012 |title=Bruce Kidd, former Olympian, takes the helm of Hart House |url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/bruce-kidd-former-olympian-takes-helm-hart-house |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=University of Toronto News}} before becoming a member of the University of Toronto track and field team. He won 18 national senior championships in Canada, the United States, and Britain. He won a gold (in the 6 Miles event) and bronze medal (in the 3 Miles event) at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and was a member of the Canadian 1964 Summer Olympics team (competing in the Men's 5000 metres, Men's 10000 metres and scheduled to start in the Men's marathon). His personal bests included a time of 2:20:18 to win the Peach Bowl Marathon in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 28, 1974, and an indoor best for two miles 8:39.0 in Wembley, England, on March 30, 1964. On outdoor tracks, he had times of 8:38.2, two months later in Modesto, California. For five kilometres, he ran 13:43.8, in Compton, California, when he was only eighteen years old, and 29:46.4 for ten kilometres in 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[https://more.arrs.run/runner/10440 Runner profile], Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved April 21, 2018. A short documentary film about him, entitled Runner, was produced and directed by Don Owen and narrated by W. H. Auden.{{cite web |website=National Film Board |url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/runner/ |title=Runner by Don Owen |access-date=2020-08-11 }}

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy in 1965 from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Adult Education in 1968 from the University of Chicago. He also received a Master of Arts in history in 1980 and a Ph.D. in history in 1990 from York University.{{cite web |url=http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=5910§id=1 |title=Professor Bruce Kidd appointed interim vice-president and principal, UTSC |publisher=University of Toronto Scarborough |date=2014-02-27}} Kidd has an honorary doctor of laws from Dalhousie University. In 1970, he joined the University of Toronto as a lecturer. He was appointed an assistant professor in 1973 and an associate professor in 1979. In 1991, he was appointed a professor. He was formerly director of the School of Physical and Health Education and acting director of the Department of Athletics and Recreation. He is a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education and the Warden of Hart House at the University of Toronto. On February 27, 2014, Kidd was named to become the interim vice president and principal for University of Toronto Scarborough. Subsequently, in December 2014, he was appointed as the tenth principal of University of Toronto Scarborough.{{cite web | url = http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=6729 |first=Don |last=Campbell | title = Professor Bruce Kidd appointed tenth principal of UTSC | publisher = University of Toronto Scarborough | date = 2014-12-12| access-date = 2015-07-03}}

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He is an honorary member of the Canadian Olympic Committee and volunteer chair of the Selection Committee, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=Bruce Kidd, Vice-President U of T and Principal UTSC|url=http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/aboutus/bruce-kidd-vice-president-u-t-and-principal-utsc|website=University of Toronto Scarborough|access-date=18 April 2017}}

In 2018, Bruce was inducted into Scarborough Walk of Fame.