Word: berkoff
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Julia L. Trotman '88, who took third place in the European Class singlehanded women's sailing competition, became the third Harvard athlete to win an Olympic bronze medal, David C. Berkoff '89 earned his bronze in the men's 100 backstroke and Anna B. Seaton '86 won hers in the women's crew pairs race...
...figured, could enable him to shave a step from the traditional 14 that most competitors took between vaults in the 400-m hurdles'. Moses won the gold and wrote a paper on the biomechanics of running 13-step hurdles. Four years ago, at the U.S. Olympic trials, backstroker David Berkoff set a new world record in the 100-m race by swimming more than two-thirds of the first 50 m underwater using the dolphin kick. Today nearly everyone employs the maneuver, which cuts drag, but only for 15 m, the maximum allowed by newly set rules...
...David Berkoff '89 won the gold medal in 1988 for the 4x100 relay and the silver for the 100 backstroke. This year he will again be swimming the men's 100 backstroke. Rich Kennelly '87 won the silver in 1988 for the four without coxswain crew competition . In Barcelona he will be rowing the men's eight...
Certainly other Ivy athletes have put in morememorable performances at NCCAs--David Berkoff'schampionship breastroke in 1989 is most notable...
...Coming to Harvard my goal was to be anAll-America. I swam with David Berkoff before, andI knew the possibility was there from Harvard,"Peterson says...