Dr. Arthur Stanley Wint,  Jamaica’s first Olympic gold medallist was born in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica on May 25, 1920. He was a schoolboy athlete (Jamaican Boy Athlete of the Year -1937), then a club and Olympic track athlete, a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot, a surgeon, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to Sweden and Denmark. He was inducted in the Black Athletes Hall of Fame in the US (1977), the Jamaica Sports Hall of Fame (1989), and the Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation Hall of Fame (2003). He was a founding member and first President of the Jamaica Association of Sports Medicine (JASM).

Dr. Wint was the second of five children of a Presbyterian Minister and a School Teacher; he was a husband, a father and grandfather, a domino player; he loved music and sang bass in a choir (listen to him on BBC’s “Desert Island Discs” recorded in 1953), loved track and field, cricket, caring for his garden, and enjoyed an ice cold beer and quiet evenings on his veranda. He was a man whose accomplishments were securely underpinned by many gifts of character – he was caring, honourable, humble, and disciplined, a man of great integrity.

His three daughters, Valerie, Alison and Colleen live in Toronto, Canada, Bristol, UK and Kingston, Jamaica respectively. Two grandsons are athletes (track, basketball) and a great-grandson is a middle distance runner in Canada.