caption death_date death_place club birth_place image_size olympics sport birth_date image article_title name
colin gordon at the 1928 olympics 22 august 1960 -lrb- aged 52 -rrb- adelaide , australia university of oxford bath settlement , upper demerara-berbice , guyana 280px 1928 high jump 24 december 1907 colin gordon 1928.jpg colin gordon -lrb- athlete -rrb-
 colin gordon
colin gordon -lrb- athlete -rrb-

colin ernest sutherland gordon -lrb- 24 december 1907 -- 22 august 1960 -rrb- was a high jumper from british guiana -lrb- present-day guyana -rrb- .
he competed for great britain at the 1928 summer olympics and finished in 17th place .
at the 1930 empire games he represented british guiana and won the silver medal .
gordon worked as a teacher in canada for a year and in 1931 moved to geelong grammar school in australia .
during world war ii he served as a wing commander with the royal australian air force .
after demobilisation he became headmaster of st. peter 's college in adelaide , australia , where he worked until his death in 1960 .
