Johnny Gibson

John Anthony Gibson ( John A. Gibson and Johnny Gibson, born July 3, 1905 in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States, † December 29, 2006 in Newton, New Jersey, United States) was an American athlete and Olympian.

Gibson was born in 1905 in New York City, but spent most of his life in Bloomfield (New Jersey). In 1928, he had successfully completed his studies in Business Administration at Fordham University, where he had set up in 1927 with 52.6 seconds set a world record on the 440- yards hurdles track. In 1928 he was a member of the athletics team of his country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where he finished fourth in one of the semi-finals on the 400 - meter hurdles track and thus missed the finals. For economic reasons, he gave in the 1928 Olympics on his own career in competitive sports and worked as a coach. He was from 1945 to 1972 head coach of the athletics team of Seton Hall University. In addition to his success as a track and field athlete and coach, he was also known as a functionary and a founding member of the Athletics Association of New Jersey (New Jersey Track and Field Officials Association) and worked at University of competitions on the east coast and also in the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden. He was admitted as a member of several Halls of Fame, including the Fordham University, Seton Hall University, the Helms Hall, NJ Sports Authority, Garden State and Bloomfield. Gibson was 67 years married to the deceased in 1997 Dorothy Croughan, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. Gibson himself died at the age of 101 years.