Arthur Rowe (athlete)

Arthur Rowe (17 August 1936 – 13 September 2003) was a track and field athlete from England.

Athletics career
Rowe was born in Smithies, near Barnsley. After leaving school, he became an apprentice blacksmith before being introduced to shot-putting at the age of 17.

Rowe won five consecutive AAA Championship shot put titles between 1957 and 1961, and represented England in the shot put at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, winning a gold medal. He also won the gold medal in the men's shot put event at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm, Sweden.

He represented Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, but failed to qualify.