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World Record Flashback: When David Wilkie Wowed the World in 200 Breaststroke at 1976 Olympics With the news of the death of breaststroke legend and Hall of Famer David Wilkie at 70, we pay tribute to the legacy of the British star. Call him the forgotten man. Overlooked. Underappreciated. Lost amid...

Passages: David Wilkie, British 1976 Olympic Champion, 70 David Wilkie, a world record setting breaststroker and ISHOF inductee who won gold at the 1976 Olympics, died on May 22. He was 70 years old. His family released a statement, saying: "It is with great sadness that the family of David Wilkie M...

Passages: Robertas Zulpa, 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist, 64 Robertas Zulpa, the 1980 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 200 breaststroke, died on Aug. 30. He was 64 years old. Zulpa was born in Vilnius is what is now Lithuania but represented the Soviet Union. He won gold in the men’s 200 breast at the...

Passages: Charlie Raeburn, Coach of Olympic Champion David Wilkie, 80 Charlie Raeburn, who coached British Olympic champion David Wilkie, died on Sept. 25 at the age of 80. Raeburn was a physical education teacher and served as a board member of sportscotland, Scotland’s national agency for sport. H...

By Jacob Riley, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming has come a long way since the 1980s. Swimmers have gone from having full mustaches and not wearing goggles, to not having a single hair on the body and having fancy goggles that streamline the water. Everything has changed since the 1980s: stro...

Sketch - a trip down memory lane: The vast, cavernous Bon Accord Baths in Aberdeen, Scotland, where the lanes were once graced by the likes of a young David Wilkie, among many other Scottish champions, stands abandoned, dilapidated and falling into slow ruin 12 years after it was closed amid budget ...

Adam Peaty has been named Sportsman of the Year by the Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain after he became the first British swimmer to retain an Olympic title. The 26-year-old won the 100 breaststroke in Tokyo, five years after gold at Rio 2016, and on Thursday became the first swimmer...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here In this issue of Swimming World, read about the 2022 NCAA men's and women's champions- the Cal Golden Bears, and the Virginia Cavaliers, alongside a f.....

FUKUOKA, Japan. July 26. USA SWIMMING is threatening to take swimming's governing body to court after FINA refused to study evidence that could prove the US relay team was incorrectly stripped of a World Championship gold medal. USA Swimming's National Team Director Dennis Pursley said today...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 6. It was an historical day at the European Championships in Helsinki as Flavia Rigamonti provided Switzerland with its first continental long-course title, Yana Klochkova and Beatrice Coada-Caslaru dead-heated in the final of the 200m medley to provide the first occasio...

Scottish swimming legend David Wilkie and Scottish para-swimming European silver medallist Scott Quin opened a street art swimming pool in Glasgow’s city centre ahead of July’s IPC Swimming World Championships at Tollcross International Swimming Centre. David Wilkie, MBE, won 1976 Olympic Gold in Mo...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Mike Barrowman, Kosuke Kitajima and David Wilkie? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolded had t...

Swimming author and statistician Kelvin Juba has died, European governing body LEN has announced. Juba was a driving force in developing the 'learn to swim, prevent drowning' programme that was launched at the end of 2017. As a member of the steering group that undertook extensive research across Eu...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the third day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Duncan Goodhew claimed gold in the 100m breaststroke, the message his victory sent to those who had bullied him for his baldness as powerful today as it was back then. Swimming World co...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, June 25. BILL Sweetenham may be a stern taskmaster but apparently his brand of "tough love" is having a major impact on the fortunes of British swimming. At this weekend's Scottish Nationals and Youth Championships, the final qualifying competition for Great Britain's Worl...

BARCELONA, June 2. IN the opening round of the Mare Nostrum Series, former SMU NCAA champ Martina Moravcova -- who represents Slovakia while working on her MBA at the Texas school -- won a tough 50 fly race from Austria's Judith Draxler and Australia's Julia Ham, 27.74-27.81-28.12. Double M ...