Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Black ya kasance BBC Sports Personality of the Year a 1958 yana da shekaru 17 kawai, kuma har yanzu shine mafi ƙanƙanta wanda ya lashe kyautar. Ya sami lambar girmamawa ta BBC ta hanyar lashe lambobin zinare uku a gasar tseren mita 400 da mita 1500, da kuma 200-mita butterfly, a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1958.
a birnin Budapest, a ƙasar Hungary. A wannan shekarar, ya kuma lashe lambar zinare da azurfa biyu ga Scotland a Wasannin Daular Burtaniya da Wasannin Commonwealth na 1958 a Cardiff, Wales; zinare a cikin kwalliyar kwalliyar 220-yard, azurfa a cikin kwalliyar kwalliyar 440-yard, da azurfa a cikin relay 4 × 220-yard.