He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and won a gold medal in the Swallow class with Stewart Morris.

He was involved in the promotion of elements related to the 2012 Summer Olympics and was the last surviving British gold medallist from the 1948 Games.

[5] When Bond returned to work he was confronted by a boss who asked sarcastically, "I suppose you won the bloody thing, did you?

[4] In February 2010 Bert Bushnell was initially thought to be the final surviving gold medallist from the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics;[6] however, Bond wrote into The Guardian to inform the newspaper that he was very much alive.

[9] Author Clive Ellis had been proposing that Bond's Olympic achievement should be recognised by the British honours system.