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David Wilkie

1954 - 2024

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David Andrew Wilkie (8 March 1954 – 22 May 2024) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Wilkie has received more than 13,821 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). David Wilkie is the 391st most popular swimmer (down from 287th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 40th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, David Wilkie ranks 391 out of 709. Before him are Roland Schoeman, Femke Heemskerk, Mirna Jukić, Linda Mackenzie, Ágnes Kovács, and Anne Ottenbrite. After him are Amy Van Dyken, Andrea Fuentes, Spyridon Gianniotis, Wang Shun, Dániel Gyurta, and Florian Wellbrock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, David Wilkie ranks 751. Before him are Gina McCarthy, John Cygan, Helen Volk, Scott May, Thomas DiLorenzo, and Willie Thorne. After him are Mark Foley, Frank Gray, Kalpana Lajmi, Mary Hanna, Charles Fernandez, and Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 2024, David Wilkie ranks 503. Before him are Rohini Godbole, Rashid Khan, Gary Shaw, Butch Johnson, Landry N'Guémo, and Aigars Fadejevs. After him are Xu Chao, Kevin Campbell, Chance Perdomo, Jacques Freitag, George Baldock, and Johnny Gaudreau.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, David Wilkie ranks 45 out of 51. Before him are Muttiah Muralitharan (1972), Beverley Craven (1963), Alexander Khloponin (1965), Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975), Shehan Karunatilaka (1975), and Sanath Jayasuriya (1969). After him are Kumar Sangakkara (1977), Lasith Malinga (1983), Mahela Jayawardene (1977), Tillakaratne Dilshan (1976), Chaminda Vaas (1974), and Pooja Umashankar (1981).

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Among SWIMMERS In Sri Lanka

Among swimmers born in Sri Lanka, David Wilkie ranks 2. Before him are Joyce Cooper (1909).

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