Bruce Kidd
He made headlines in 1961 for winning a two-mile indoor race in Boston in record time — and as a 17-year-old Toronto high school runner, no less.
Bruce Kidd was one of Canada’s great middle-distance runners, setting records throughout the early 1960s until injuries brought his racing career to an early close.
He helped inspire a generation of Canadian runners but it’s his decades of work as an educator at the University of Toronto, a ceaseless advocate of athletes’ rights and agitator for an end to racism and gender discrimination in all its forms, that has had such a profound and positive impact on sport here at home and internationally.