After his unexpected win in 1956, Mr. Arnold went on to a lifetime of promoting rowing and sports in his province and across Canada
Don Arnold and his teammates became Olympic champions after failing to qualify for the varsity eight crew at the University of British Columbia.Don Arnold rowed stroke for an unheralded crew of university students who stunned the sporting world by winning a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
Mr. Arnold, who died at 85 on June 27, was a blond, freckle-faced farm boy from British Columbia’s Okanagan region. He was joined in the shell by teammates Walter d’Hondt , Lorne Loomer and Archie McKinnon . Donald John Arnold was born on July 14, 1935, in Kelowna, B.C., a second son for the former Mary Alexandra Laing and Nelson John Arnold. He was raised in nearby Winfield on a family orchard that lacked electricity and running water until after the Second World War. Don Arnold drove trucks as a teenager after the family business expanded into serving local fruit growers with transport and a refrigeration plant.
Mr. Arnold’s physique caught the eye of some of the varsity rowers, who invited him and Mr. Pretty to visit them at the Vancouver Rowing Club’s shell house. In the end, Mr. Pretty qualified for the eight boat, while Mr. Arnold, who considered quitting the program, wound up as a spare. When not in training, the rowers worked as labourers – wielding axes in the woods, operating jackhammers on highway crews, and helping to build a pipeline across British Columbia’s rugged terrain.
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