Durward Knowles

Sir Durward Randolph Knowles, who lived from 2 November 1917 to 24 February 2018, was a sailor and Olympic champion from The Bahamas. He won the gold medal in the Star class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, together with Cecil Cooke, and the bronze medal in the same class at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. He had earlier competed for the United Kingdom at the 1948 Olympics, finishing fourth in the Star class with Sloane Elmo Farrington, and he won gold in the Star class at the 1959 Pan American Games. He is one of only five athletes to have competed in the Olympics over a span of forty years, and in 2016 he became the oldest living Olympic champion.