Donald Macgregor

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Donald Macgregor ( Donald Forbes "Don" Macgregor; born July 23, 1939 in Edinburgh ; † June 3, 2020 ) was a British marathon runner and author.

In 1965 he was second in the Scottish Championship in 2:22:24 h and in 1967 third in the English Championship in 2:17:19 h.

In 1969 he was fifth in the Karl Marx Stadt Marathon and second in the Košice Marathon . The following year he qualified as runner-up in the Scottish Championship in 2:17:14 h for the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970 , in which he started for Scotland in eighth place in 2:16:53 h.

In 1971 he was third in the Edinburgh North Berwick Marathon. As a participant in an exchange program for German teachers, he taught at a grammar school in Emmerich am Rhein for a year from autumn 1971 . After winning the West German Marathon Championship in 2:19:01 h as a guest runner, he joined the TV Refrath .

In 1972 he was third overall in the Maxol Marathon in 2:15:06 h English runner-up and qualified for the Olympic Games in Munich , where he moved up from 36th place to seventh place after a cautious start and in 2:16: 35 h reached the destination. At the end of the year he finished sixth in the Fukuoka Marathon in 2:16:43 h.

In 1973 he was Scottish marathon champion in 2:17:50 h. At the beginning of the following year he set his personal best in sixth place at the British Commonwealth Games in 1974 in Christchurch with 2:14:16 h. The title defense at the Scottish Championship was followed by a third place in the Harlow Marathon.

In 1976 he was Scottish marathon champion for the third time and fourth in the English championship in 1977.

In 1980 he became the senior world marathon champion in 2:19:23 h, and in 1983 and 1984 he won the Dundee marathon. In tenth place in the Glasgow Marathon in 1984, he set the current British M45 record with 2:19:01 h.

In addition to his three marathon titles, he was Scottish champion over ten miles on the track in 1965 and over 10,000 m in 1966 .

In addition to his work as a German teacher at Madras College in St Andrews , he was involved in regional policy for the Liberal Democrats . He also worked as a coach at the Fife Athletic Club. After his retirement he published three books: a volume of poetry, an autobiography and a biography about Otto Peltzer .

Publications

  • Stars and Spikes: Selected Poems 1998-2004. The Nutwood Press, 2004, ISBN 0954874102
  • Running My Life. Pinetree Press, 2010, ISBN 0954874137
  • with Timothy Johnston : His Own Man: The Biography of Otto Peltzer, Champion Athlete, Nazi Victim, Indian Hero. Pitch Publishing, 2016, 1785311905

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Obituary for Don MacGregor. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  2. Claus Boelen-Theile: Bergisch Gladbach: Donald Macgregor ran at the 1972 Olympics for TV Refrath . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . August 10, 2016