Donald Arnold
Medal record
Men’s rowing
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1956 MelbourneCoxless four
Silver medal – second place1960 RomeEight
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place1958 CardiffEight
Silver medal – second place1958 CardiffCoxed four

Donald John Arnold (July 14, 1935 – June 27, 2021) was a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. He was born in Kelowna, British Columbia.

He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Archibald MacKinnon, Lorne Loomer and Walter D'Hondt.[1]

At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Arnold received a gold medal in eights, and a silver medal in coxed fours. He received a silver medal in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.[2] He died in North Vancouver, British Columbia at the age of 85 from heart failure in 2021.[3]

Awards

Arnold was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1958. He was inducted into British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966,[4] and into University of British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, together with the other members of the Olympic gold team.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Rowing" Archived 2007-12-08 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
  2. ↑ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Rowing" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
  3. ↑ Hawthorn, Tom (August 1, 2021). "B.C. rower Don Arnold and his crew of underdogs won Canada's first Olympic gold in the sport". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  4. ↑ "1956 UBC/VRC Coxless Fours (M)"[usurped] – British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (Retrieved on May 25, 2017)
  5. ↑ "1956 UBC Four Oared Rowing Crew" Archived 2005-03-31 at the Wayback Machine – University of British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)


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