July 24th, 1976
David Andrew Wilkie MBE (born 8 March 1954) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who was Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the 1970s. He is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, world and Olympic swimming titles at the same time and was the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960.
He is a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, the International Swimming Hall of Fame, has been described as Scotland’s greatest swimmer and Britain’s finest swimmer.
1976 Olympics
He won gold in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, in a world-record time of 2:15:11 and preventing an American sweep of the men’s swimming gold medals.
He also added a 100-metre silver medal to his collection in a time of 1:03:43 His world record was to remain unbroken for six years.
