Ergenekan represented Turkey in the 400m freestyle, 100m and 200m butterfly events at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
After receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 2003 from Washington State University[3] and returning to the University of Minnesota as a Research Consultant and Laboratory Manager at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Ergenekan returned to Portland, OR, and to his swimming roots. He won his age group for the 2-mile Open Water Nation Championship in Sweet Home, OR, with a time of 43:51.03 and set a new Oregon age group record.
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↑ Can Ergenekan, Sports-reference.com (Olympics Sports). Retrieved 2012-04-19.
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