 McGregor in 1966 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Robert Bilsand McGregor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Bob", "Bobby", "The Falkirk Flyer" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 April 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Chinook Aquatic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Bilsand McGregor, MBE (born 3 April 1944), nicknamed the "Falkirk Flyer", is a Scottish former competitive swimmer.
He competed in eight events at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle in 1964, and finished fourth in the 100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre freestyle relay in 1968. [1] He was a second favourite for the 1963 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. [2] Olympic selectors could not believe that he trained in a 25-metre pool in Falkirk when the selectors arrived to critique him prior to the Tokyo Olympics.
McGregor competed at the 1962 in Perth, Australia. [3]
McGregor represented the Scotland team again [4] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in three events. [5] He won the silver medal in the 110 yards individual freestyle, finished fourth in the 4 x 100 metres freestye relay, with Downie Brown, Gordon Black and Alex Galletly and finished fifth in the 4 x 110 yards medley relay, with Casey Nelson, Eric Henderson and Gordon Black. [6]
He is a six times winner of the British Championship in 100 metres freestyle (1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968 and 1968). In the 1963 event he set a world record in the heats (54.4 sec) and the final (54.1 sec). [7] He also won the 1963 200 metres freestyle. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
He retired from swimming in 1968 and now works as an architect in Glasgow. He lives in Helensburgh with his wife and family. [2] His father, David McGregor, was an Olympic water polo player. [1]
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