Glenroy Gilbert

Personal information
Born	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Education	Louisiana State University
Height	205 cm (6 ft 9 in)
Weight	93 kg (205 lb; 14 st 9 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field Bobsleigh
Event(s)	100 m,Long jump
University team	LSU Tigers
Retired	2000
Achievements and titles
Personalbests	100 m: 10.10 (Victoria 1994) 200 m: 20.37 (New Orleans 1993) Long jump: 8.04 (Bogota 1989)
Medal record Men's track and field Representing Canada Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta 4x100 m relay World Championships 1995 Gothenburg 4x100 m relay 1997 Athens 4x100 m relay 1993 Stuttgart 4x100 m relay Pan American Games 1995 Mar del Plata 100 m

Glenroy John Gilbert (born August 31, 1967) is aCanadian formertrack and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in4×100 metres relay at the1996 Summer Olympics, and head coach ofAthletics Canada.^[1]

Born inTrinidad & Tobago, Gilbert, his mother, and his five siblings, moved to Canada in 1973.^[2]

He was a member of theLouisiana State University track and field team, where he won the NCAA4 × 100 metres relay title in 1993.^[3]

Gilbert made his major international championships debut at the1988 Summer Olympics, where he was 21st in theLong Jump. At the1990 Commonwealth Games, Gilbert was eighth in long jump, and reached the semifinal as a member of Canada's 4 × 100 m relay team at the1992 Summer Olympics.

Gilbert won his first medal at the1993 World Championships, when the Canadian 4×100 m relay team finished in third place. At the1994 Commonwealth Games, Gilbert won the gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay and was fifth in 100 m. Gilbert also competed inbobsleigh at1994 Winter Olympics, where he finished fifteenth in two-man bobsled and eleventh in four-man bobsled.

In 1995, Gilbert won a gold medal in 100 m at thePan-American Games and was a member of gold medal winning Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team at the1995 World Championships.

At theAtlantaOlympics, At the 4×100 m relay final, the Canadian team beat United States by almost half a second, to establish itself the best relay team in the world. Gilbert also reached the quarterfinals of the 100 m.

Gilbert and the Canadian team won a gold medal again at the1997 World Championships and at the1998 Goodwill Games. At the1999 World Championships the Canadian team were disqualified in semifinal and Gilbert ended his running career after the2000 Summer Olympics, where the Canadians were eliminated in the semifinal.

After his retirement, Gilbert worked for a short time in CBC radio inOttawa. He became coach for the Ottawa Lions Track & Field club, coaching sprints and relays. He has worked with Athletics Canada since 2006, primarily as coach of the Canadian men's and women's relay teams.^[1]

In July 2017 he was named Athletics Canada's permanent head coach; he had earlier been named head coach for the August 2017 world track and field championships.^[1]

In 2008 he was inducted intoCanada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics 4x100 relay team.^[4]

• Glenroy Gilbert atWorld Athletics
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• Glenroy Gilbert atOlympedia

• 1968 births
• Living people
• Canadian male sprinters
• Canadian male long jumpers
• Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to Canada
• Track and field athletes from Ontario
• Canadian track and field coaches
• Olympic track and field athletes for Canada
• Olympic gold medalists for Canada
• Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
• World Athletics Championships medalists
• World Athletics Championships athletes for Canada
• Canadian male bobsledders
• Olympic bobsledders for Canada
• Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Black Canadian sportsmen
• Black Canadian track and field athletes
• Track and field athletes from Ottawa
• Sportspeople from Port of Spain
• LSU Tigers track and field athletes
• Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
• FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Canada
• World Athletics Championships winners
• Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade
• Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games
• Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
• Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Canadian Track and Field Championships winners
• NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• 20th-century Canadian sportsmen

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