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...this story in the chapter called "Triumphant Returns," Harvard Co-Captain David Berkoff completed yesterday at Blodgett Pool for the first time since his gold-medal performance in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, racing in the Crimson's dual meet against Cornell...
...while the competition of the Big Red could not come close to that of the world's best, Berkoff merely picked up where he left off six months...
Leading off the Harvard 400-yd. medley relay, the first race in the meet, Berkoff completed his 100-yd. backstroke leg in a time of 47.86 seconds. Nobody has ever covered the distance faster...
...result, Berkoff is now the new American and NCAA record-holder in the 100 backstroke, having eclipsed the old mark of 47.94 seconds set by Stanford's Jay Mortenson...
With the swim, Berkoff now holds every record in sprint backstroke. He already has broken the world, American and Olympic records in the 100-meter distance--the length used in international competition. And after Saturday's performance, the senior now holds all records in short-course yards competition, for which there are no world marks...