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Arnold William Boldt, OC (born September 16, 1957) is a
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athlete from
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. A leg
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, he won seven gold medals in the
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in the high jump and long jump. Boldt was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. In 1979, a fictionalized account of Boldt's athletic career aired on
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as the film ''
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''. He returned to the
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for the first time since 1992 by competing in the
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in para-cycling.


Awards and honours

In 1994, Boldt was inducted into the
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References

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