Bob McGregor
British swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
Robert Bilsand McGregor, MBE (born 3 April 1944), nicknamed the "Falkirk Flyer", is a Scottish former competitive swimmer.
Swimming career
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. 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. 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 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.
McGregor represented the Scotland team again at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in three events. 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.
He is a six times winner of the British Championship in 100 metres freestyle (1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968 and 1968).
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