Donald Macgregor

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Donald Macgregor is a former Olympic athlete born in Edinburgh in 1939. Competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Men's Marathon event, in which he finished in 7th position. He also competed in the 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Games, and had a personal best of 2:14:15.4. He was World Masters Champion in the over-40 class over 10,000m (1979) and Marathon (1980). Donald, who is also chair of the Royal Burgh of St Andrews Community Council and served as a Liberal Democrat councillor on North East Fife District Council from 1988-1996, was principal teacher of German in Madras College, St Andrews until the year 1999, when he retired from full-time teaching. Until 2006 he taught French and German part-time in the Business School of the University of Abertay Dundee and is also a German-language tour guide. He has also written a book of poetry, Stars and Spikes (2004, Nutwood Press) following in the footsteps of his father Forbes, who was a more prolific author, and published among many other books with a Scottish theme the best-selling Greyfriars Bobby - the True Story at Last. Recently Donald was involved in the production of a German book about the 2006 World Cup.