Bruce Ibbetson
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| Born | January 13, 1953 (age 73) 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
[edit | edit source]Bruce is a 1975 graduate of the University of California, Irvine.
Olympics
[edit | edit source]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.[1] 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.[2]
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Categories:
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in rowing
- American male rowers
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Congressional Gold Medal recipients
- Rowers at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American rowing Olympic medalist stubs