Education
Bond attended Harrow School as a child.
Bond attended Harrow School as a child.
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. 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 unpaid leave from his job in the aircraft industry.
Along with Stewart Morris, they competed in the Swallow class, which would be the only time it was included in an Olympic Games.
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.