Brian Wilkinson
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| Full name | Brian Harold Wilkinson | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 February 1938 Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 April 2026 (aged 88) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
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Brian Harold Wilkinson (12 February 1938 – 27 April 2026) was an Australian swimmer. He won a gold medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, as a member of the Australian men’s 4x220-yard freestyle relay team.[1]
Wilkinson also competed in the men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[2] Wilkinson was butterfly specialist and set a world record in the men’s 110y butterfly at Sydney in 1958.
He was Australian swim team coach at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games - becoming the second Australian Olympic swimmer to be selected as an Olympic swim coach. In 2001, he won the Open Water Coach of the Year Award from the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association. [3]
Wilkinson died in Sydney on 27 April 2026, at the age of 88.[4]
References
- ↑ "'Sorely missed': Aussie Olympic champion dies". wwos.nine.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
See caption under photo of victorious relay team.
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Brian Wilkinson Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Swimming Australia - Vale Brian Wilkinson". Swimming Australia. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ↑ "Vale Brian Wilkinson – a man who made a difference". NSW Institute of Sport. 28 April 2026. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
External links
- Brian Wilkinson at World Aquatics
- Brian Wilkinson at SwimRankings.net
- Brian Wilkinson at Olympics.com
- Brian Wilkinson at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Brian Wilkinson at Olympedia
- Brian Wilkinson at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Brian Wilkinson at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Brian Wilkinson at InterSportStats
- 1938 births
- 2026 deaths
- Australian male butterfly swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games swimmers for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Muswellbrook
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Australian swimming coaches
- Australian swimming biography stubs