Uğur Taner
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Mehmet Uğur Taner (born June 20, 1974) is a retired Turkish-born American swimmer who was a High School All American, national public school record holder and Washington state champion specializing in sprint freestyle and butterfly. He competed for Turkey at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in five events, won a gold medal for the U.S. team in the September, 1994 Rome World Championships in the 4x100-meter relay, and was an All American swimmer at the University of California Berkeley.[1]
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Full name | Mehmet Uğur Taner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States, 1993-2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1974-06-20) June 20, 1974 (age 50) Istanbul, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Chinook Swimming Club Greater Seattle, Washington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Jack Ridley (Chinook Swimming Club) Nort Thornton (U. Cal Berkeley) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taner was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1974, the son of Erol and Gulcin Taner, who moved to the United States one year later, where Erol attended Indiana's Perdue University. The family later settled in Bellevue, California.[2][1]