Sir Arthur Abraham Gold CBE (10 January 1917 – 25 May 2001) was one of the world's best-known sporting administrators, notable as a fearless and uncompromising enemy of drug-taking[1][2] He led the British athletics teams at three Olympic Games (at Mexico in 1968, Munich, 1972, and Montreal, 1976) and was commandant of the English Commonwealth Games Team at Brisbane (1982), Edinburgh (1986) and Auckland (1990) and of the British Olympic Team at Albertville and Barcelona in 1992.
[3] As an athlete, he represented Great Britain on the tours of Finland and Norway in 1937 at high jump.
[5] Gold finished third behind John Lunn Newman in the high jump event at the 1937 AAA Championships.
[5] From 1984 to 1992 Gold was chairman of the British Olympic Association and was later its vice president.
[4][9] Gold also held the position of honorary life president of the European Athletics Association.