Gordon Black (swimmer)

Black lived in Aberdeen but joined the Inverness Amateur Swimming Club in 1966.^[1] He specialised in the freestyle and butterfly strokes and won the 100 metres freestyle at the 1966 Scottish ASA trials.^[2]

Black represented the Scotland team^[3] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in four events. He reached the final of the 110 yards individual freestyle, finished fourth in the 4 x 100 metres freestye relay, with Downie Brown, Alex Galletly and Bobby McGregor^[4] and finished fifth in the 4 x 110 yards medley relay, with Casey Nelson, Eric Henderson and Bobby McGregor.^[5]

His brother Ian Black was also an international swimmer for Scotland and coached Gordon.^[6]

He emigrated to Canada and the France in 2004. He returned to Masters swimming at the age of 55 to assist with a collar bone inujury.^[7]