Neil Gibson (rower)

Neil Gibson
Personal information
Birth nameNeil Stanley Gibson
NationalityNew Zealand
Born25 March 1962
Blenheim, New Zealand
Died3 January 1999(1999-01-03) (aged 36)
Height191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight88 kg (194 lb)
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
1986 EdinburghCoxless four
1986 EdinburghEight

Neil Stanley Gibson (25 March 1962 – 3 January 1999) was 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.

He died on 3 January 1999 in Christchurch of cancer.