David Bond
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| gold | London 1948 | Swallow |
David John Were Bond (born March 27, 1922 in Falmouth , † March 23, 2013 ibid) was a British sailor .
successes
David Bond took part in the 1948 Olympic Games in London as a crew member of helmsman Stewart Morris in the boat class Swallow and was in this Olympic champion . With 5625 points they took first place with their yacht Swift ahead of the Portuguese brothers Duarte Manuel and Fernando Bello and Lockwood Pirie and Owen Torrey from the United States. It was the last regatta of Bond and Morris, which had already met a few months before the Games.
During the Second World War Bond was active in the Royal Air Force with the rank of aircraft man. He then worked for the British Aircraft Corporation for some time before starting a successful career as a boat builder in his home town of Cornwall after an unsuccessful phase as a vegetable farmer .
Web links
- David Bond in the database of World Sailing (English)
- David Bond in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1948 gold medalist David Bond passes away. In: rya.org.uk. Royal Yachting Association , April 16, 2013, accessed March 25, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Bond, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bond, David John Were (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Falmouth , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 2013 |
| Place of death | Falmouth , UK |