Abby Hoffman
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Full name | Abigail Golda Hoffman[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | February 11, 1947|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Abigail Golda Hoffman, OC (born February 11, 1947) is a Canadian former track and field athlete.
Hockey
Hoffman is Jewish, and was born in Toronto.
Track and field
After her experiences with hockey, Hoffman participated in competitive swimming and then realized she was particularly suited to track and field, specifically
Hoffman competed in two summer
She finished seventh in the 800 metres at the Mexico Olympics, and eighth in the 1972 Munich games she in 2:00.17 seconds to set a Canadian record. She also won gold for the 800-metre race at the 1963 Pan American Games and 1971 Pan American Games and the bronze at the 1967, at the 1975 Games, a silver and a bronze for the 800-metre and the 1500-metre distances.
At the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel, she won the women's 800 m run.[6]
Post-athletics
From 1981 to 1991, she was the first woman director general of Sport Canada, a federal government sports agency. In 1981, she was the first Canadian woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Canadian Olympic Committee. From 1980 to 1982, she wrote a fitness column for the Canadian magazine, Chatelaine.
In 1982, she and
She is also the sister of Paul F. Hoffman, a geologist who has promoted the "snowball earth" hypothesis.
Honours
In 1982, Hoffman was made an officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. In 2007, she was inducted into the Jewish Canadian Athletes Hall of Fame.[2] In June 2015, she received an honorary Doctorate of Laws, from her alma mater, the University of Toronto.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Abby Hoffman". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
- ^ a b "Jewish Canadian Athletes Hall of Fame". Jewish Canadian Athletes Hall of Fame.
- ISBN 0-8020-0717-1.
- ^ "Welcome to Jews In Sports Online". Jews in Sports.
- ISBN 978-1-57215-037-9
- ^ "Julie Heldman Wins Third Tennis Medal In Games in Israel". The New York Times.
- ^ "News | University of Toronto". utoronto.ca.
- "Abby Hoffman". Women Warriors. Archived from the original on September 2, 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2005.
- "Abby Hoffman". Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on January 11, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2005.
- "Abigail "Abby" Hoffman". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2015.