Jim Muirhead - Paralympian Swimmer
As a swimmer, Jim Muirhead was Scotland’s most successful paralympian. Jim lived at 13 Alma Terrace as a schoolboy in the 1950s and 60s. His loss of sight at age 16 put an end to swimming training with the British Olympics team, but he was soon invited to join the paralympians instead. Between 1976 and 1984 he went on to win 5 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze medals. In recognition of his achievements Jim was Sports Personality of the Year in 1974, and in 2012 he was asked to carry the Olympic flame over Tower Bridge.
Jim died in 2021.
Thanks to Julie Anderson for this information
Place
Newport-on-Tay, Alma TerraceContributor
Julie AndersonLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
NOT.1928Format
Photograph (1412)
Area
Newport (1197)
Subject
Swimming (9)
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