The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Sri Lanka
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sri Lankan Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Sri Lankan Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. David Wilkie (1954 - )
With an HPI of 25.98, David Wilkie is the most famous Sri Lankan Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
David Andrew Wilkie (born 8 March 1954) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who was Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the 1970s. He is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, world and Olympic swimming titles at the same time and was the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. He is a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, the International Swimming Hall of Fame, has been described as Scotland's greatest swimmer and Britain's finest swimmer.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include David Wilkie.
