Donald Arnold

Donald John Arnold, known as Don, was a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion, born in Kelowna, British Columbia, on 14 July 1935. He won the gold medal in the coxless four at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, rowing with Archibald MacKinnon, Lorne Loomer and Walter D'Hondt, and four years later won a silver medal in the eight at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome as a member of the Canadian team. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he took gold in the eight and silver in the coxed four. His honours include the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and the University of British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, shared with the other members of the Olympic gold crew. He died in North Vancouver on 27 June 2021, aged 85, of heart failure.