Stephan van den Berg

In this Dutch name, the surname is van den Berg, not Berg.

Stephan van den Berg (born 20 February 1962) is a retired windsurfer from the Netherlands.^[1] He was world champion in 1983 and in the 1984 Summer Olympics, Long beach, California won the first Olympic Gold medal^[2][3][4] in the Windglider for the Netherlands.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]} After that he turned professional and therefore missed the 1988 Olympics. He returned to amateurs to compete at the 1992 Olympics,^[13][14] Barcelona^[15] where he finished in seventh place in the Men's Lechner A-390.^[16]

Stephan van den Berg

Stephan van den Berg in 1985
Personal information
Born	(1962-02-20) 20 February 1962 (age 63) Hoorn
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sailing career
Class(es)	Windglider Lechner A-390
Competition record Representing  Netherlands Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Windglider 7th 1992 Barcelona Men's Lechner A-390
Updated on 19 February 2014

Professional life

Stephan van den Berg is, with his brothers, owner of VANDENBERG Surf. With outlets in Almere, Hoorn and Zandvoort it is specialized in the popular sports like:^[17]

• Windsurfing
• Kitesurfing
• Wingfoiling
• SUP
• Watersports
• Winter sports

Further reading

• (in Dutch) Dutch Olympic Committee