Dan Kutler

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Dan Kutler
Personal information
BornMay 2, 1970 (1970-05-02) (age 54)
Mountain View, California, U.S.
Sport
CountryIsrael (Olympic Team)
Sport Swimming
Event(s)butterfly, freestyle
College team U. California Los Angeles
Coach Ron Ballatore
Medal record
Men's Swimming
Summer Universiade
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Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Sheffield 4x100m Medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1991 Sheffield 100m Butterfly

Dan Kutler (born May 2, 1970 in Mountain View, California) is an American-born former swimmer and butterfly specialist, who swam for UCLA and participated for Israel in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. [1] [2]

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Kutler was born in Mountain View, California on May 2, 1970. [3] He is Jewish [4] and grew up in Santa Clara, California.

Kutler swam for Cupertino High School, where he was a three time All-American swimmer, and captured All America honors in water polo. [2] Completing his Senior year in High School at 18, he attended the August, 1988 Olympic trials at the Texas Swim Center in Austin, and placed 57th in the 50-meter free with a time of 23.90, far from the third place finish needed to qualify in the event. [5]

University of California Los Angeles

He competed for UCLA from 1988 to 1992 under Hall of Fame Coach Ron Ballatore, where he was a 7-time All American. Kutler's teams at UCLA were perennial top-ten contenders in NCAA national competition. [6] [2] Considered one of the Pac-10 Conference’s top sprinters and relay members while at UCLA, at the 1991 FISU World University Games in England, he was a member of the UCLA’s gold medal 400-Meter Medley Relay Team. In 1990, he helped UCLA capture a championship in the Pac-10 400-Meter Medley Relay, and a second-place finish in the 200-Meter Freestyle Relay. Kutler placed first in both the 100-Meter Freestyle (51.50) and the 100-Meter Butterfly (55.20) at the 1990 Olympic Festival. [2] At the 1989 Olympic Festival in Oklahoma City, he won a gold in the 100-meter butterfly. [7]

1996 Atlanta Olympics

After completing UCLA, Kutler moved to Israel in 1994 to begin swimming for their national team in preparation for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. In Atlanta, he swam the butterfly leg for the four-man 4x100 meter medley with Yoav Bruck, Eitan Urbach, and Vadim Alexeev. [8] The team reached the final, taking eighth place. [9] He retired after the Olympics. [10]

He captured a silver medal at the Men's 50-meter Butterfly with a time of 24.71 in France on March 2, 1996 at the FINA Swimming World Cup, and took the a bronze in the Men's 50-meter Butterfly, with a time of 24.40 on October 2, 1996 at the FINA World Cup in Germany. [11]

In 1997 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. [2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jewish Post 5 June 1991 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home". scjewishsportshof.com.
  3. ↑ "Olympedia Biography, Dan Kutler". olympedia.org. Retrieved February 11, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Jewish Post 5 June 1991 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
  5. ↑ "Olympic Trials Results, Men's Preliminaries, 50-meter freestyle", Austin American Statesman, Austin, Texas, August 13, 1988, pg. 58
  6. ↑ Pac-12 Men's Swimming Media Guide , Pac-12 Conference, Walnut Creek, California, pp. 1–2, 10 (2014). Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Olympics, US Olympic Festival", The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 20, 1989, pg. 24
  8. ↑ "The Jewish Post & News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Kutler, Dan". jewsinsports. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Uc_Hilal". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
  11. ↑ "World Aquatics, Dan Kutler, Previous Results". worldaquatics.com. Retrieved February 11, 2025.


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