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89-Year-Old Mike Gibbons Wins Gold at Transplant Games

8/29/2025

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Mike Gibbons, 89, won four gold medals at the World Transplant Games in Germany in squash and running.
He started competing in 2008 after receiving a kidney from his wife, Ann, who has dementia.
Gibbons plans to participate in future events, including the British Transplant Games in Sheffield next August.

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Mike Gibbons, 89, won four gold medals at the World Transplant Games in Germany in squash and running.
He started competing in 2008 after receiving a kidney from his wife, Ann, who has dementia.
Gibbons plans to participate in future events, including the British Transplant Games in Sheffield next August.