{"id":119561,"date":"2016-07-29T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/?post_type=athletes&#038;p=119561"},"modified":"2021-12-08T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:51:35","slug":"duncan-gillis","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/duncan-gillis\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Gillis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En raison de la r\u00e9putation qui l&rsquo;a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 en tant que lanceur de talent et dont le <em>New York Times<\/em> a dress\u00e9 le portrait d&rsquo;un athl\u00e8te \u00e0 surveiller \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1912-stockholm\/\">Stockholm 1912<\/a>, Duncan Gillis a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi comme porte-drapeau du Canada \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie d&rsquo;ouverture du d\u00e9fil\u00e9 des nations. \u00c0 sa premi\u00e8re \u00e9preuve des Jeux, il a termin\u00e9 14e au lancer du disque. Deux jours plus tard, Gillis remporte la m\u00e9daille d&rsquo;argent au lancer du marteau gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un jet de 48,30 m\u00e8tres (158-pieds-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1904, Gillis d\u00e9m\u00e9nage en Colombie-Britannique pour devenir policier \u00e0 Vancouver. Athl\u00e8te polyvalent, il s&rsquo;est joint au Vancouver Athletic Club et, entre 1907 et 1912, Gillis a remport\u00e9 de nombreux titres en athl\u00e9tisme sur 100 m, 400 m, au disque, au caber, au lancer du poids, au souk \u00e0 la corde et au marteau. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 champion canadien du marteau et au lancer du poids, et m\u00e9daill\u00e9 national au disque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La carri\u00e8re de Gillis en athl\u00e9tisme a \u00e9t\u00e9 de courte dur\u00e9e. Apr\u00e8s les Jeux de Stockholm, il a chang\u00e9 de sport pour se concentrer sur la lutte, devenant le champion national des poids lourds en 1913. Il est devenu professionnel l&rsquo;ann\u00e9e suivante en 1914, et s&rsquo;est battu pour le titre mondial en 1920 dans ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 un combat serr\u00e9 malgr\u00e9 une d\u00e9faite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gillis a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la Colombie-Britannique en 1967, au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada en 1977, au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports du Cap-Breton en 1997 et au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse en 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En raison de la r\u00e9putation qui l&rsquo;a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 en tant que lanceur de talent et dont le New York Times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":194215,"template":"","tags":[],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162664],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[48770],"game":[9241421],"team":[415983247],"event":[110570170,181822900,181822915],"province":[],"class_list":["post-119561","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162664","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-athletisme","game-1912-stockholm","team-stockholm-1912-athletisme","event-discus-men","event-lancer-du-disque-femmes","event-lancer-du-marteau-hommes"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/coc_men_ph_1340x754.png","category_names":[],"tag_names":[],"sport_names":[342],"game_names":["Stockholm 1912"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Stockholm 1912 Athl\u00e9tisme"],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"1","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"Port Hood, Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse","athlete_birthplace":"Mabou, Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"January 3, 1883","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/119561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/119561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195548,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/119561\/revisions\/195548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=119561"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=119561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}