David Wilkie

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Wilkie
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Mar 8, 1954(1954-03-08)
Age	70
Birthplace	Colombo
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Colombo
Horoscope	Aries

David Wilkie Biography

David Wilkie is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on March 8, 1954 in Colombo, Colombo, United Kingdom. David Wilkie’s parents came from Aberdeen, Scotland, but were stationed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when Wilkie was born on 8 March 1954. His family regularly patronised the open air Colombo Swimming Club where Wilkie learned to swim.

In 1970 the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association awarded Wilkie the Nancy Riach Memorial Medal Award (awarded to the person who has the done the most to enhance or uphold the prestige of Scottish Swimming during the year) and the W.G. Todd Cup and Prize (Junior Swimmer of the Year). This was the first time in the Association’s history that both awards had gone to the same person in the same year. Wilkie continued to hold the Nancy Riach award every year from 1972 to 1976.

At the Scottish national long course championships in 1972, Wilkie won five events. However Wilkie’s world breakthrough came when he won silver in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, in a European record time of 2:23:67 in spite of being ranked only 25th in the world. He also broke the Scottish record times for the 100-metre breaststroke and the 200-metre individual medley.

In 1973 Wilkie was studying and swimming in the United States. He won the World Championship for 200-metre breaststroke in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and broke the world record.

At 11 years old his parents sent him back to Scotland as a boarding school pupil at Daniel Stewart’s College in Edinburgh, and, while a student there, he joined the Warrender Baths Club, one of Scotland’s most successful swimming clubs. It was there that he began to train intensively and develop his specialist stroke, the breaststroke under one of Britain’s leading coaches Frank Thomas, whom Wilkie credited with giving him the motivation to become a world class swimmer. In 1969, Wilkie was chosen to join the elite Scottish Training Squad organised by the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association.

David Wilkie Net Worth

David Wilkie is one of the richest Swimmer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Wilkie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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.

In 1969 Wilkie swam representing Britain for the first time in an international swimming contest swimming against the Russian 200-metre breaststroke world record-holder Nikolai Pankin.

Wilkie broke the British record for the 200-metre breastroke in an international match against Denmark in July 1970. He then won a bronze medal in front of his home crowd in the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in the 200-metre breaststroke breaking his own British record again. He wore a swim cap for that event during the commonwealth games, making him the first elite swimmer to wear one in a major competition.

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Wilkie won three Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) National US Championships and three NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships (NCAA) US college championships while at Miami, was four times All-American and was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. The head swimming coach there was Bill Diaz and his individual coach was Charlie Hodgson.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. David Wilkie celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.

What does David Wilkie do now?

AFTER winning gold in the 200m breaststroke at the 1976 Olympics, David Wilkie became Britain’s frst superstar swimmer. During his swimming career, he broke fve world records. Now a successful businessman , David, 59, lives in Surrey with his partner, Helen, with whom he has two children, Natasha and Adam.

When did David Wilkie win his gold medal?

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.

How old is David Wilkie swimmer?

68 years (March 8, 1954)

How tall is David Wilkie?

6′ 0″

Who is the best British swimmer?

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