David Wilkie

David Wilkie was a Scottish breaststroke swimmer, born in Colombo, Ceylon, on 8 March 1954 to Scottish parents and educated in Edinburgh, who died on 22 May 2024. He won silver in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, then won the world title in 1973 with a world record. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal he won gold in the 200 metre breaststroke in a world record time of 2:15.11 and added silver in the 100 metre breaststroke. He was the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960 and the first British man to do so since Henry Taylor in 1908, and he is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time. He studied and trained at the University of Miami, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1977, and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.