Wint was probably the leading light in the history of Jamaican athletics. A minister's son, born of a Scottish mother, he was the first Jamaican runner to win an Olympic title over 400 m, during the games of 1948.He won a second gold medal at these very same games in London with the Jamaican 4x400 m relay team, a title that he again won four years later in Helsinki.Also an 800 m runner, the shortest of the middle-distance races, he won two medals for this event, in London in '48 and in Helsinki in '52.