Doug Gjertsen
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Full name | Douglas Seneca Gjertsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Doug" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Phillipsburg, New Jersey | July 31, 1967||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Seneca Gjertsen (born July 31, 1969) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Gjertsen was the third member of the record-setting U.S. team in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The American team of Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski, Gjertsen and Matt Biondi set a new world record with a time of 7:12.51. He also received a bronze medal for swimming for the third-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay.[1]
Four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, he was the fourth member of the third-place U.S. team in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay; the American team of Joe Hudepohl, Mel Stewart, Jon Olsen and Gjertsen won the bronze medal with a time of 7:16.23. Individually, he finished eighth in the final of the men's 200-meter freestyle, recording a time of 1:50.57.[1]
He attended the University of Texas at Austin, and swam for coach Eddie Reese's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team. He was a three-time individual NCAA champion and a nine-time relay NCAA champion. He was inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in September 2006.
Gjertsen is currently the head coach for SwimAtlanta, and is the personal coach for one of the best Latvian swimmers, Andrejs Duda.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of Texas at Austin alumni
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References
- ^ a b Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Doug Gjertsen. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
- 1969 births
- Living people
- American male freestyle swimmers
- American swimming coaches
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- People from Warren County, New Jersey
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Texas Longhorns men's swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming