Donald Arnold

Donald "Don" John Arnold (born July 14, 1935 in Kelowna ) is a former Canadian rower .

Arnold rowed in the eighth of the University of British Columbia with Archibald MacKinnon , Lorne Loomer and Walter D'Hondt . The four rowers surprisingly qualified in the four without a helmsman for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In the final of the Olympic Regatta, the four Canadians won by over ten seconds over the boat from the United States.

At the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958 , the Canadians won the title with the Canadian eight, Arnold and D'Hondt also competed in the four with helmsman and won the silver medal in this boat class. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , the four Olympic champions from 1956 competed with the Canadian eighth. In the final, the Germany eight won ahead of the Canadians and the boat from Czechoslovakia.

Arnold graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1962. In 1970 he received his PhD from the University of Indiana at Bloomington .

Web links

• Donald Arnold in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )