Ricky Berens

Ricky Berens
Ricky Berens at the USA elimination competitions for the 2009 World Cup
Personal information
Surname:	Ricky Berens
Nation:	United States
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle, butterfly
College team:	University of Texas
Birthday:	April 21, 1988
Place of birth:	Charlotte
Size:	1.91 m
Weight:	86 kg
Medal table

Ricky Berens (born April 21, 1988 in Charlotte , North Carolina) is an American swimmer.

Ricky Berens is a student at the University of Texas and competes in Longhorn Aquatics . His trainers are Randy and Eddie Reese. He surprisingly qualified in the US Trials for the 2008 Summer Olympics . He finished third in the 200 m freestyle and was originally only intended for the preliminary run to the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay. A strong performance in the run-up brought him a place in the relay, with which he was then in the final, together with Michael Phelps , Ryan Lochte and Peter Vanderkaay , in a superior manner and with a time of 6: 58.56 minutes, Olympic champion. For the first time, a time of less than seven minutes was set. The world record was improved by almost 4½ seconds. A year later, the US relay managed to improve the world record by a hundredth of a second at the 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, with Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens, David Walters and Ryan Lochte winning the relay the world title ahead of the Russian relay.

Records

World records (1)
4 × 200 m freestyle (with Lochte , Walters and Phelps )	06: 58.55 min	July 31, 2009	Rome
(As of August 7, 2010)

Web links

• Ricky Berens in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ricky Berens in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Portrait on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Portrait on the US Swimming Association website