Donald Macgregor (athlete)

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Donald Forbes Macgregor is a former Scottish athlete, born in Edinburgh in 1939. Competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing Great Britain in the Men's Marathon event, in which he finished in 7th position.^{[citation needed]} He competed for Scotland in the 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Games, and had a personal best of 2:14:15.4.^[1] Macgregor, who was also chair of the Royal Burgh of St Andrews Community Council until 2007 and served as a Liberal Democrat councillor on North East Fife District Council from 1988-1996^{[citation needed]}, was principal teacher of German in Madras College, St Andrews from 1994^[2] until 1999, when he retired from full-time teaching.^{[citation needed]} 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. In May 2007 he was elected to Fife Council as one of the ward members for East Neuk and Landward (LibDem) and forms part of the Fife Council coalition administration with the Scottish National Party. He continues to run most days and coaches middle distance athletes as a member of Fife Athletic Club. Donald Macgregor and his former wife have 3 children.

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1. ^ Access information by conducting a search against athletes at the following site — Commonwealth Games Federation official site. Commonwealth Games Federation (1970 and 1974). Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
2. ^ Arlen Pardoe; Nicholas Humfrey (9 June 2005). Recent History of the Department. Madras College St. Andrews. Retrieved on 2007-04-22.

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