About: John Cheffers

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Dr. John Theodore Francis Cheffers (13 May 1936 in Melbourne, Australia – 28 October 2012) was the second Director of the Australian Institute of Sport. He succeeded Don Talbot as AIS Director in 1984 and stayed in the role until 1986. Ronald Harvey took over the directorship of the institute after his departure.Cheffers was a Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Human Movement Program at Boston University and contributed a number of journal articles on sport and physical education. Cheffers' work on violence in sports was featured in Sports Illustrated.

Property Value
dbo:Person/height
  • 180.0
dbo:Person/weight
  • 72.0
dbo:abstract
  • Dr. John Theodore Francis Cheffers (13 May 1936 in Melbourne, Australia – 28 October 2012) was the second Director of the Australian Institute of Sport. He succeeded Don Talbot as AIS Director in 1984 and stayed in the role until 1986. Ronald Harvey took over the directorship of the institute after his departure.Cheffers was a Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Human Movement Program at Boston University and contributed a number of journal articles on sport and physical education. As a young man John Cheffers was a strong Field athlete. He placed sixth in the 1956 Victorian State Triple Jump championship with a jump of 13.05m (42 feet 10 inches). In the 1957 Victorian State Long Jump championship he placed third with a jump of 6.885m (22 feet 7 inches). His favorite event was the Pole Vault. Cheffers first came to note as an athletics coach. His most successful athlete was Jean Roberts who won several Commonwealth Games silver and bronze in the Discus and Shot Put during the 1960s and 1970s as well as 13 national athletic championships in the Discus and Shot Put. Pam Telfer also won a national championship in the javelin under John's coaching.Anna Karner, who won several Australian shot put and discus titles in the 1970s, was also coached by John Cheffers. Karen Moller, who took 4th twice in the US Olympic Trials in the High Jump, was also coached by John during the first half of the 1970s. John also played four senior games with Carlton in the Victorian Football League in 1955, as well as being a fitness advisor to Hawthorn in the mid 1960s.John also played for the Box Hill football club, in the VFA, from 1958 to 1962. In 1968 Cheffers became the head athletic coach for Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia. His experiences coaching the multiracial team that was selected are detailed in his book A Wilderness of Spite: Rhodesia Denied. This team was denied entry to Mexico for the Olympics by the Mexican government, and was, de facto, banned from the Olympic Games at this point. Cheffers has a strong belief, as a result of this time, that politics should not interfere in sport. Mathias Kanda, Bernard Dzoma and Robson Mrombe are well known distance runners who John coached during 1968. In 1969 Cheffers was appointed head athletic coach for Papua New Guinea and led them to the third South Pacific Games in Port Moresby, New Guinea. Receiving his Masters of Education in 1970, and his Doctorate of Education in 1973, both from Temple University in Philadelphia, Cheffers moved north to Boston where he worked for Boston University. In 1972 Cheffers founded the Boston University School of Education's Tuesday-Thursday Physical Education Program. Cheffers' work on violence in sports was featured in Sports Illustrated. Following his tenure at the Australian Institute of Sport, Cheffers returned to academia and was President of (Association Internationale des Ecoles Superieures d'Education Physique) from 1984 to 1998. Cheffers died on 28 October 2012 while on a plane en route from San Francisco to Sydney. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, his four children, Paul, Mark, Leigh and Andrew, and 17 grandchildren. John's father, Percy Cheffers, also played football in the VFL in the 1930s. (en)
  • Dr John Cheffers (13 mai 1936 Melbourne, Australie - Le 28 octobre 2012) a été le deuxième directeur de l'Institut de Sport Australien. Il a pris la succession de en tant que Directeur AIS en 1984 et est resté dans ce rôle jusqu'en 1986. a pris la direction de l'Institut après son départ. Cheffers était un professeur d'éducation et coordonnateur du programme au mouvement humain Université de Boston et contribué beaucoup de publications sur le sport et l'éducation physique. Cheffers a connu la notoriété à titre d'entraîneur d'athlétisme. Son athlète la plus accomplie a été Jean Roberts qui a remporté plusieurs médailles d'argent aux Jeux du Commonwealth et de bronze au lancer du disque et lancer du poids pendant les années 1960 et 1970. Il a également joué quatre matchs avec les Carlton dans le Victorian Football League en 1955, ainsi que d'être un conseiller de fitness à Hawthorn Football Club au milieu des années 1960. En 1968 Cheffers est devenu l'entraîneur athlétique en chef pour le Zimbabwe, alors appelé la Rhodésie. Ses expériences de coaching de l'équipe multiraciale qui a été sélectionné sont détaillées dans son livre A Wilderness of Spite: Rhodesia Denied. Cette équipe s'est vu refusé l'entrée au Mexique pour les Jeux Olympiques par le gouvernement mexicain, et a été, de fait, interdit des Jeux olympiques à ce point. Cheffers a une forte croyance, à la suite de cette époque, que la politique ne doivent pas interférer dans le sport. Mathias Kanda, Bernard Dzoma et Robson Mrombe sont les coureurs de fond notoires que John a entraînés en 1968. En 1969 Cheffers a été nommé entraîneur d'athlétisme en chef pour la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et les a mené aux troisième Jeux du Pacifique Sud à Port Moresby, en Nouvelle-Guinée. Après avoir reçu sa maîtrise en éducation en 1970, et son doctorat d'Éducation en 1973, les deux de Temple University a Philadelphie, Cheffers déplacée vers le nord à Boston où il a travaillé pour Université de Boston. En 1972, Cheffers fondé l'École éducation physique du mardi au jeudi an sein du Programme d'éducation de l'Université de Boston. Le travail de Cheffers sur la violence dans le sport a été présenté dans Sports Illustrated. Après son mandat à l'Australian Institute of Sport, Cheffers retourné dans le monde universitaire et a été président de (Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d'Éducation Physique) de 1984 à 1998. Cheffers est décédé le 28 octobre 2012 à bord d'un vol de San Francisco à Sydney. Il a été survécu par son épouse, Margaret, ses quatre enfants, Paul, Marc, Leigh et Andrew, et 17 petits-enfants. (fr)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1936-05-13 (xsd:date)
dbo:careerStation
dbo:deathDate
  • 2012-10-28 (xsd:date)
dbo:debutTeam
dbo:height
  • 1.800000 (xsd:double)
dbo:weight
  • 72000.000000 (xsd:double)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 10253345 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 9371 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1109536567 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1936-05-13 (xsd:date)
dbp:club
dbp:deathDate
  • 2012-10-28 (xsd:date)
dbp:debutdate
  • 1955 (xsd:integer)
dbp:debutopponent
dbp:debutstadium
dbp:debutteam
dbp:gamesGoals
  • 4 (xsd:integer)
dbp:height
  • 180.0
dbp:name
  • John Cheffers (en)
dbp:originalteam
  • Kew Amateurs (en)
dbp:statsend
  • 1955 (xsd:integer)
dbp:title
  • John Cheffers- Boston University School of Education (en)
dbp:url
dbp:weight
  • 72.0
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1955 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Dr. John Theodore Francis Cheffers (13 May 1936 in Melbourne, Australia – 28 October 2012) was the second Director of the Australian Institute of Sport. He succeeded Don Talbot as AIS Director in 1984 and stayed in the role until 1986. Ronald Harvey took over the directorship of the institute after his departure.Cheffers was a Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Human Movement Program at Boston University and contributed a number of journal articles on sport and physical education. Cheffers' work on violence in sports was featured in Sports Illustrated. (en)
  • Dr John Cheffers (13 mai 1936 Melbourne, Australie - Le 28 octobre 2012) a été le deuxième directeur de l'Institut de Sport Australien. Il a pris la succession de en tant que Directeur AIS en 1984 et est resté dans ce rôle jusqu'en 1986. a pris la direction de l'Institut après son départ. Cheffers était un professeur d'éducation et coordonnateur du programme au mouvement humain Université de Boston et contribué beaucoup de publications sur le sport et l'éducation physique. Le travail de Cheffers sur la violence dans le sport a été présenté dans Sports Illustrated. (fr)
rdfs:label
  • John Cheffers (fr)
  • John Cheffers (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • John Cheffers (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:coach of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License