Brent Berk
Personal information | |
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Full name | Brent Thales Berk |
National team | United States |
Born | Eustis, Florida | June 27, 1949
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | Santa Clara Swim Club |
College team | Stanford University |
Brent Thales Berk (born June 27, 1949) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic athlete.
Berk represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.[1] He advanced to the event final of the men's 400-meter freestyle, and finished in eighth place with a time of 4:26.0.[1][2]
Berk was born in Eustis, Florida,[1] and graduated from the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. He attended Stanford University, where he swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition and was recognized as an All-American.
He was inducted into the Hawaii Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003.[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Brent Berk. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games, Men's 400 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ^ Wes Nakama, "Oyakawa leads 2003 Hall class," Honolulu Advertiser (September 2, 2003). Retrieved September 9, 2015.
External links[edit]
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Brent Berk". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
Categories:
- 1951 births
- Living people
- American male freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for the United States
- People from Eustis, Florida
- Sportspeople from Lake County, Florida
- Swimmers from Honolulu
- Punahou School alumni
- Stanford Cardinal men's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- American swimming biography stubs