Скачать или смотреть David Wilkie passes away (1954 - 2024) (UK) - UK News - 23/May/2024

British Olympic swimming champion David Wilkie has died at the age of 70. His birthday was last 8th March 2024.

The Scot won 200m breaststroke gold in Montreal in 1976, as well as two Olympic silver medals and three world titles.

His family released a statement saying: "It is with great sadness that the family of David Wilkie MBE announce that he died peacefully surrounded by his family this morning, following his brave battle with cancer."

Born in Sri Lanka to Scottish parents, Wilkie won his first major medal with a bronze at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

Born: 8 March 1954 (age 70 years), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Wikipedia:
David Andrew Wilkie MBE was a Scottish swimmer who was Olympic 200 m breaststroke champion in 1976, the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. He is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time.