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Birth name | Nigel Gibson | |||||||||
Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||
Born |
Blenheim, New Zealand |
25 March 1962 |||||||||
Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||
Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | |||||||||
Medal record
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Nigel Gibson (born 25 March 1962), commonly known as Neil Gibson, is a New Zealand rower.
Gibson was born in 1962 in Blenheim, New Zealand. In 1986 he won a silver medal in the coxless four at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in a boat with Shane O'Brien, Andrew Stevenson, and Don Symon. He also won a bronze medal with the men's eight.
He represented New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the coxless four in a team with Campbell Clayton-Greene, Bill Coventry, and Geoff Cotter, where they came seventh. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 552 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.