Hibberd, Ted

Ted Hibberd was born on April 22, 1926 in the city of Ottawa , Ontario , Canada . He was the youngest of six children with his parents, spent his childhood in the New Edinburgh area , where he learned to play hockey.

He began to seriously engage in hockey in 1942, played in various local clubs in small amateur leagues, and continued to perform during his service in the Canadian Armed Forces .

He achieved the greatest success in his sports career in the 1948 season when he joined the Ottawa RCAF Flyers team, assembled from members of the Royal Canadian Air Force , and went with her to Switzerland to defend the country's honor at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics . As a result, Canadians won here over all rivals except the Czechoslovak team, with which they drew with a score of 0-0. Despite the equal number of points scored by Czechoslovakians, Canadian hockey players still beat them by the difference in goals scored and goals conceded (+64 vs. +62), thus winning Olympic gold medals. At the same time, Hibberd went on the ice in all eight games of his team and managed to score three goals (all three goals he scored accounted for the match with the Italian national team, won by Canadians with a crushing 21: 1 score).

After the Olympics, Ted Hibberd played for the Flyers for another three seasons, while in 1951 he decided to end his sports career.

Subsequently, he worked for more than forty years in the insurance company MetLife . Having retired in 1984, he lived with his family mainly in the state of Florida , although he often came to his homeland in Ottawa. He had five children.

In 2008, for his successful performance at the Olympics, he was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.

He died on May 10, 2017 in Ottawa at the age of 91. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Ted Hibberd - Olympic Statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Ted Hibberd (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee