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Duff Gibson (born August 11, 1966) is a Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1999 to 2006. He was born in Vaughan, Ontario. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton, narrowly beating out his teammate Jeff Pain. His victory made the 39-year old surpass ice hockey player Al MacInnis as the oldest gold medalist in Canadian Winter Olympic history. More significantly, Gibson became the oldest individual gold medalist in the history of the Winter Games, a record previously held by Norway's Magnar Solberg, who was 35 when he won the gold medal in the 20 km individual biathlon event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. He retired immediately following the 2006 Games in Turin.
Gibson also finished tenth in the men's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He also won two medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 2004 and a bronze in 2005. Gibson's best overall seasonal Skeleton World Cup finish was second in the men's event in 2003-4.
Off the ice, Gibson is a firefighter at the Calgary International Airport.
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