Bob McGregor

He competed in eight events at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle in 1964, and finished fourth in the 100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre freestyle relay in 1968.^[1] He was a second favourite for the 1963 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.^[2] Olympic selectors could not believe that he trained in a 25-metre pool in Falkirk when the selectors arrived to critique him prior to the Tokyo Olympics.

McGregor competed at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.^[3]

McGregor represented the Scotland team again^[4] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in three events.^[5] He won the silver medal in the 110 yards individual freestyle, finished fourth in the 4 x 100 metres freestye relay, with Downie Brown, Gordon Black and Alex Galletly and finished fifth in the 4 x 110 yards medley relay, with Casey Nelson, Eric Henderson and Gordon Black.^[6]

He is a six times winner of the British Championship in 100 metres freestyle (1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968 and 1968). In the 1963 event he set a world record in the heats (54.4 sec) and the final (54.1 sec).^[7] He also won the 1963 200 metres freestyle.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

He retired from swimming in 1968 and now works as an architect in Glasgow. He lives in Helensburgh with his wife and family.^[2] His father, David McGregor, was an Olympic water polo player.^[1]

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)