Glyn Hibbert: Powerlifting, the Paralympics, and Folkestone Sports Centre
Title
Glyn Hibbert: Powerlifting, the Paralympics, and Folkestone Sports Centre
Subject
Glyn Hibbert
Description
In this collection, Glyn Hibbert describes his involvement with weightlifting in Folkestone, and how this led to a long, varied and dedicated engagement with disability sport. Glyn, who is currently Hawkinge Town Mayor, also talks about his close association with - and appreciation of - Folkestone Sports Centre: 'My sporting career wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Folkestone Sports Centre.'
Creator
Michael Romyn
Publisher
Kent's Sporting Memories
Contributor
Glyn Hibbert; Michael Romyn
Collection Items
Glyn Hibbert Oral History Summary
Summary of an Oral History Recording with interviewee Glyn Hibbert
Folkestone Sports Centre Weight Training Club
A photo of Glyn Hibbert and members of the Folkestone Sports Centre Weight Training Club, featured in the September 1979 edition of the centre's now-defunct 'Sports Folk Magazine'. From left to right: Brian Morris (secretary), Mark Jennings (junior…
The Kent Senior Powerlifting Championships 1979
A photo of a poster advertising the Kent Senior Powerlifting Championships, which was held at Folkestone Centre on 3 March, 1979, and hosted by the Folkestone Sports Centre Weight Training Club.
Glyn Hibbert at Folkestone Sports Centre, 1981
A photograph of Glyn Hibbert performing a dead lift at a powerlifting tournament at Folkestone Sports Centre in 1981.
Coach Glyn Hibbert
An article in the December 1989 edition of the Bovis newsletter, the 'Bovis Post', describing Glyn Hibbert's work with disabled weightlifters at Stoke Mandeville in preparation for the 1992 Paralympic Games.
Powerlifting Fundraiser at Folkestone Sports Centre, 2009
A photograph of an article in the Kent Messenger Extra detailing a powerlifting fundraiser for Help for Heroes held at Folkestone Sports Centre in December, 2009. The article states that Glyn Hibbert compèred the show, and that more than £1,000 was…
Glyn Hibbert at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing
A photograph of Glyn Hibbert at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. Glyn served as the representative for British powerlifting at the games.
Glyn Hibbert: Powerlifting, the Paralympics, and Folkestone Sports Centre
A portrait of Glyn Hibbert at his home in Hawkinge, Kent, in August 2019. Glyn is wearing the blazer he wore during the London 2012 Paralympic Games, in which he served as a GB official and representative.
'We made things, you know, we built it ourselves basically': Glyn Hibbert on the founding of Folkestone Sport Centre's first weightlifting gym
An excerpt of an oral history recording with Glyn Hibbert, in which Glyn describes his introduction to weightlifting in Cheriton in the 1960s, and the establishing of a weightlifting gym and club at Folkestone Sports Centre in the 1970s. (Transcript…