Jean-Guy Poitras
Jean-Guy Poitras (born 1949)[1] is a Canadian badminton referee, originally from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, in northwest New Brunswick.
He was a professor of physical education at the Edmundston Campus of the Université de Moncton and was Dean there from 1996 to 2001. He retired in 2013 from the university.[2]
He has been involved in badminton since the 1970s and has refereed more than 600 international matches, including those in the 2000 Summer Olympics.[3] 2006 he was elected to the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame,[4] 2016 to Badminton Canada's Hall of Fame.[5] 2019 he received the BWF Lifetime Achievement Award.[6] He authored more than 60 publications,[7] amongst them 2020 the book Badminton Pan Am, featuring the development, history, championship results and statistics, as well as champions of the sport.[8]
References
- ^ https://leglibbibcat.legnb.ca/bib/38981
- ^ https://www.umoncton.ca/nouvelles/info.php?id=12605
- ^ https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/5002761
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110614132557/http://www.nbsportshalloffame.nb.ca/sports/fr/membres/voir_membre.aspx?id=191
- ^ https://www.badminton.ca/file/855134/?dl=1
- ^ https://www.badminton.ca/news/129159/BWF-Lifetime-Achievement-Award-Presented-to-Mr-JeanGuy-Poitras
- ^ https://tj.news/infoweekend/jean-guy-poitras-lance-un-60e-ouvrage
- ^ https://triangle.springfield.edu/issue/triangle-90-1/author-author/