Gordon Downie

Gordon Hunter Downie (born 3 March 1955) is a British former competitive swimmer who swam in the 1976 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal as a member of the British 4x200-metre freestyle relay team.

Biography Swimming career Although Downie was born in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, his father was Scottish and he swam for Great Britain, Scotland, and the Warrender Baths Club in Edinburgh. While attending the University of Michigan on an athletics scholarship, he swam for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team in collegiate competition.

Downie represented Great Britain at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia where he broke the Scottish record for the 200-metre freestyle. Apart from winning his bronze medal, he was sixth in the 200-metre freestyle at the 1976 Montreal Olympics when he set a British record that stood for six years.

Downie was inducted into the Scottish Swimming Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2004 Downie was a doctor (pulmonologist) at The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University