(1920-05-25)25 May 1920 Plowden, Jamaica, British Empire[1]
Died
19 October 1992(1992-10-19) (aged 72) Linstead, Jamaica
Height
194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight
77 kg (170 lb)
Military career
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Sport
Sport
Running
Event(s)
400 m, 800 m ran in London
Club
Polytechnic Harriers, Westminster[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
400 m – 46.2 (1948) 800 m – 1:48.9y (1951)[1]
Medal record
Representing Jamaica
Olympic Games
1948 London
400 metres
1952 Helsinki
4×400 m relay
1948 London
800 metres
1952 Helsinki
800 metres
Central American and Caribbean Games
1938 Panama
800 metres
1946 Barranquilla
400 metres
1946 Barranquilla
800 metres
1946 Barranquilla
4×400 m relay
Arthur Stanley Wint OD MBE (25 May 1920 – 19 October 1992) was a Jamaican Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War, sprinter, physician, and later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Competing at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, whilst a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he won two gold and two silver medals, becoming the first Jamaican Olympic gold medalist.[2][3][4]
^ abcArthur Wint at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
^"Arthur WINT". Olympics.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^Cooper, David K. C. (2014). Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine. Newark: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 421. ISBN 978-1-61149-466-2.
^"Jamaica's first gold medallist Arthur Wint remembered". BBC News. 23 October 2021. Archived from the original on 13 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
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for Children is a children's hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, located on ArthurWint Drive in the Kingston 5 district of the city, near the national stadium...
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Lanka (then Ceylon) when he finished second in the 400 metre hurdles. ArthurWint became the first Jamaican to win an Olympic gold medal, in the men's...
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