David Bond

Biography Bond attended Harrow School as a child.

In March 1948 Bond was informed that he would be competing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. To take part, he had to take eight weeks of unpaid leave from his job in the aircraft industry.

When Bond returned to work he was confronted by a boss who asked sarcastically, "I suppose you won the bloody thing, did you?", to which Bond responded, "Yes, we did actually."

In February 2010 Bert Bushnell was initially thought to be the final surviving gold medallist from the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics; however, Bond wrote into The Guardian to inform the newspaper that he was very much alive. In the run up to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Bond teamed up with fellow sailing medallist Ben Ainslie to promote "Sail for Gold", an exhibition about the history of sailing at the Olympics. He was involved in the promotion of Royal Mail's range of Olympic stamps. Author Clive Ellis had been proposing that Bond's Olympic achievement should be recognised by the British honours system.