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David Andrew Wilkie MBE (8 March 1954 – 22 May 2024) was a Scottish swimmer who was the Olympic 200m breaststroke champion in 1976, the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. [2]
The baths are home to the Warrender Baths Club which is said to be the oldest, most famous and most successful swimming club in Scotland. [4] David Wilkie the Olympic gold medallist swimmer, [7] Ellen King and Keri-Anne Payne [8] both silver Olympic medallists, bronze medal Olympic swimmers Paul Easter, Gordon Downie and Alan McClatchey, bronze ...
From 1968 to 1989 Warrender was supreme in Scottish swimming. It was one of the top clubs in British swimming and its swimmers won in European, Commonwealth and World competitions – including David Wilkie who has been described as Scotland's greatest ever swimmer.
David Wilkie (swimmer) (1954–2024), Scottish swimmer; David Wilkie (ice hockey) (born 1974), American ice hockey player; David Wilkie (taxicab driver) (1949–1984), Welsh taxi driver killed during the UK miners' strike of 1984–85; David Lloyd Wilkie or Adam Purple (1930–2015), American activist and guerrilla gardener born as David Lloyd ...
Adlington and Balding were joined by Mark Foster as they discussed the legacy of David Wilkie, the first British champion to win a gold medal for swimming at the 1976 Montreal Games.
David Wilkie Great Britain: 2:23.67 Nobutaka Taguchi Japan: 2:23.88 1976 Montreal details: David Wilkie Great Britain: 2:15.11 WR: John Hencken United States: 2:17.26 Rick Colella United States: 2:19.20 1980 Moscow details: Robertas Žulpa Soviet Union: 2:15.85 Albán Vermes Hungary: 2:16.93 Arsens Miskarovs Soviet Union: 2:17.28 1984 Los ...
The first world record in the men's 200 metres breaststroke in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908 and the first world record in the women's 200 metres breaststroke was recognised in 1921. In the short course (25 metres) swimming events the world's governing body recognizes ...
Breckynn Willis, a state champion swimmer for Dimond High School in Anchorage, Alaska, was disqualified during an event last Friday after an official determined that her swimsuit was too revealing.