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| Full name | Robert Bilsand McGregor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Scottish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 April 1944 Falkirk |
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| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Bilsand McGregor MBE (born 3 April 1944[1]), known as Bob or Bobby and nicknamed the 'Falkirk Flyer', was a Scottish swimmer of the 1960s who won a silver medal in the 100 metres freestyle [2] at the 1964 Olympic Games. He finished second in the 1963 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. Olympic selectors could not believe that he trained in a 25 m pool in Falkirk when the selectors arrived to critique him prior to the Tokyo Olympics.
McGregor competed at the 1962 and 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, winning a silver medal on each occasion in the 110 yd freestyle.[3]
He now works as an architect in Glasgow and lives in Helensburgh with his wife and family.
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