Bob Dixon (athlete)

Robert Samuel Dixon, known as Bob Dixon, was a Canadian track and field athlete who threw the javelin, born on 30 December 1909 and killed on 11 January 1941. He won the gold medal at the 1934 British Empire Games in London with a throw of 60.02 metres, beating the South African Harry Hart, and took one Canadian javelin title in the same year. He also played lacrosse for the New Westminster Salmonbellies in the 1930 Mann Cup and coached the Canadian lacrosse team at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Outside sport he served in the Vancouver Police Force, flew as a pilot in China, and in the Second World War enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a test pilot. He died in a crash at Grosse Isle, Manitoba, and was later inducted into the Richmond Sports Wall of Fame.