Bryan Gibson
{{short description|Canadian boxer}}
{{about||the American producer and composer|Bryan Gibson (musician)|those of a similar name|Brian Gibson (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox boxer
| name = Bryan Gibson
| birth_place = Kentville, Nova Scotia
| occupation = Boxer
}}
Bryan Gibson (born November 10, 1947, in Kentville, Nova Scotia) is a former Canadian boxer, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and is the first boxer of African descent from Nova Scotia to compete in the Olympics.{{cite web | url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/bryan-gibson/ | title=Bryan Gibson | date=18 September 2011 }}
He now coaches the Evangaline Trail Amateur Boxing Club in his hometown of Kentville.{{cite web | url=https://valleyfamilyfun.ca/boxing/ | title=Boxing | date=14 April 2017 }} He has coached a variety of amateur boxers including some amateur national champions and a gold medallist at the most recent Canada Games. He is also a bus driver for the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Amateur boxing career
Gibson fought at the 1973 Western New York Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament.https://boxrec.com/en/event/862838/2896759 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}} In 1974, he won the Canadian National Amateur Boxing Championships in the 178 pounds division,{{cite web | url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/Canada1974.html | title=Canadian Nationals 1974 }} and in 1975 he won another national amateur boxing title. He beat Ernie Barr in the 1975 North American 178-pound amateur championship bout at the Miami Marine Stadium.https://boxrec.com/en/event/804367/2460591 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}} He qualified for the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City as a light-heavyweight boxer, but he lost in the preliminary round.{{cite web | url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/PanamericanGames1975.html | title=7.Panamerican Games - Ciudad Mexico, Mexico - October 14-25 1975 }}
The Kentville native represented Team Canada in the men's middleweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics.https://olympics.com/en/athletes/bryan-gibson {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}} He was defeated by Bernd Wittenburg of East Germany at 75 kilograms.
1976 Olympic record
Below are the results of Bryan Gibson, a Canadian middleweight boxer who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics:
- Round of 32: lost to Bernd Wittenburg (East Germany) by a third-round knockouthttps://boxrec.com/en/event/796137/2646881 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
Honors and awards
- 1974 Canadian National Amateur Boxing Champion. (1974)
- 1975 Canadian National Amateur Boxing Champion. (1975)
- 1975 North American Amateur Boxing Champion. (1975)
- 1975 Pan American Games participant. (1975)https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/olympian-bryan-gibson-honoured-with-mural-in-kentville-ns-100739752/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
- 1976 Summer Olympics participant. (1976)
- Inductee of the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame. (1991)https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/kentville-ns-olympian-boxing-hall-of-famer-to-be-celebrated-with-art-mural-100731617/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
- Honored with a mural in Kentville.{{cite web | url=https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/black-nova-scotia/new-mural-in-kentville-honours-life-boxing-career-of-olympian-bryan-gibson/ | title=New mural in Kentville honours life, boxing career of Olympian Bryan Gibson | date=28 May 2022 }}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220121/http://72.232.38.190/EN/athletes/query/details2.php?id=35872 Canadian Olympic Committee]
References
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Category:People from Kentville, Nova Scotia
Category:Black Canadian boxers
Category:Black Canadian sportsmen
Category:Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic boxers for Canada
Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen
Category:Boxing people from Nova Scotia
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