Background
He was born in Eugene, Oregon and graduated in 1969 from Beaverton High School in Beaverton, Oregon.
He was born in Eugene, Oregon and graduated in 1969 from Beaverton High School in Beaverton, Oregon.
He was 5th in the 1988 Games in Seoul of Korea. Wilkins was recruited to the University of Oregon by the famous distance running coach Bill Bowerman where he threw the javelin 78.44m, 257" 8" as a 19-year-old freshman. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
Wilkins broke the World"s Record Four times in his career.
During his discus throw series on May 1, 1976 in San Jose, California, he set the world record three times with consecutive throws of 69.80m, 70.24m, and 70.86m. Mac was ranked #1 in the World in 1976 and 1980 in the discus.
From 2006 through 2013 Wilkins coached the throws at Concordia University, an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics school, in Portland, Oregon. In August 2013, Wilkins left Concordia University to coach for USATF in Chula Vista California.
Wilkins competed for the United States in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada in the discus throw, where he won the gold medal with a distance of 221" 5" to defeat Wolfgang Schmidt of East Germany by four feet. Wilkins also won a silver medal with the discus at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, after missing the 1980 games due to the American boycott. As a senior he was National Collegiate Athletic Association Champion in the discus and won the first of Eight United States National Championships in the discus. With the death of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Oerter on 1 October 2007, Wilkins is the earliest surviving Olympic Champion in the Men"s Discus. He is not the oldest as Viktor Rashchupkin, the 1980 Champion, is almost exactly 1 month older. He was National Champion indoors in the shot put in 1977 with a best of 21.06m, 69" 1.5". His throwers won 26 individual National Championships and earned 94 All-American honors.
