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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||
| Born | 28 November 2003 Palnackie, Scotland | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Event | Medley | |||||||||||
| University team | Loughborough University | |||||||||||
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Charlie Hutchison (born 28 November 2003) is a swimmer from Scotland, who is a British Champion. [1] [2] [3]
When swimming for Ellesmere College Titans in 2016, he won four gold medals at the all ages British Summer Championships. [4] Hutchison represented Great Britain at the 2017 European Youth Olympics, winning a bronze medal. He later competed at both the 2018 and 2019 European Junior Championships. [3]
He came to prominence in 2023, after winning the gold medal at the 2023 British Swimming Championships in the 400 metres medley. [5]
David Andrew Wilkie was a Scottish swimmer who was the Olympic 200m 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. Wilkie, a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame, has been described as Scotland's greatest and Britain's finest swimmer. Fellow Olympic breaststroke gold medallist Duncan Goodhew considered him an "extraordinary talent" and "one of Britain's greatest ever athletes".
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Kathleen Mary Dawson is a Scottish backstroke swimmer. She won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay in a world record time. She is also the European champion at the 2020 Budapest Championships and holder of the European record in 100 m backstroke (58.08).
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Matthew Richards is a British swimmer specialising in 100 and 200 metre freestyle, active internationally from 2020. He won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle at 2023 World Aquatics Championships, a silver in the 200 m freestyle at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Olympic gold in the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics and World gold in the same event at the 2023 World Championships.
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