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Duff Gibson, gold medallist in skeleton at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.

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. With his victory, the 39-year-old Gibson surpassed ice hockey player Al MacInnis as the oldest gold medalist in Canadian Winter Olympic history.

Gibson also finished tenth in the men's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He won two medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships, taking gold in 2004 and bronze in 2005. His best overall seasonal Skeleton World Cup finish was second in the men's event in 2003โ€“4.

In October 2009, Gibson joined forces with the Stephen Lewis Foundation to raise money for HIV/AIDS affected families in Africa. He carried a 20-litre jug of water approximately 12 km through Calgary from Canada Olympic Park to his son's school as part of the foundation's "A Dare to Remember" campaign.

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