| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Great Britain | ||
| World Championships | ||
 | 1975 Cali | 100 m breaststroke |
| European Championships (LC) | ||
| 1974 Vienna | 100 m breaststroke |
| 1974 Vienna | 200 m breaststroke |
Representing  England | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
 | 1974 Christchurch | 100 m breaststroke |
 | 1974 Christchurch | 200 m breaststroke |
| 1974 Christchurch | 4×100 m medley |
David William Leigh (born 22 December 1956) is an English former competitive swimmer.
Leigh represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. He competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. [1]
Representing England he also competed at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand, where he beat David Wilkie to the gold medal in the 100 metres breaststroke. He also won a silver medal in the 200 metres breaststroke and a bronze medal in the medley relay. [2] [3] [4] At the ASA National British Championships he won the 100 metres breaststroke title in 1975. [5]
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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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