[1][4] A 23-year-old bank teller, Winter is Australia's only Olympic high jump gold medalist.

[5] He served in the RAAF in Britain during World War II and was about to join a Wellington Bomber squadron when the hostilities ended.

The next year he joined the Australian team in London for the Olympic Games where he was considered an outside medal chance only against the strong American jumpers.

Of the 26 competitors, only Winter and Georges Damitio used the unfashionable so-called eastern cut-off style of jumping.

The Auckland Games gave him another gold medal, clearing 1.98 m. - the same height he'd achieved two years earlier.