Ian Black (swimmer)
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Ian Black was a Scottish swimmer. He was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1958 at the age of only seventeen. He achieved this phenomenal feat by winning gold medals in three separate events at the European Championships in Budapest, competing as an adult. He also won a gold medal for Scotland at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games that year, in Cardiff. He holds certain age-related British records to this day.
When competing for Great Britain, he would proudly display his Scottish identity by wearing a MacGregor tartan dressing gown poolside. As well as excelling in the water, he was also a formidable rugby player.
He later returned to his former school, Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen, as headmaster of the Junior School.
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