Scott Jaffe
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Full name | Scott Erik Jaffe | ||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1969-04-29) April 29, 1969 (age 55) Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Club | Forest Lake Swim Team (FLST) Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Scott Erik Jaffe (born April 29, 1969) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. Jaffe represented the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Jaffe attended the 1988 Olympic trials, swimming in a 400 meter freestyle relay, but failed to make the American team. Disappointed, he stopped swimming for eight months afterwards.[1][2]
1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics
In the 1992 qualifiers, Scott came close enough, finishing fourth in the 200 meters with a time of 1:49.33, and was fifth in the preliminaries with a time of 1:49.65[3] Jaffe earned a bronze medal by swimming for the third-place U.S. team in the preliminary heat of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay which qualified the United States Team for the finals. Jaffe swam in the first position in Heat 3 of the last qualifying round and received a time of 1:50.14 for his 200 meter swim.[2]
He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he swam for the California Golden Bears swimming and diving team.[2]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
References
External links
- Scott Jaffe – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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- 1992 United States Olympic Trials
- Mike Barrowman
- David Berkoff
- Matt Biondi
- Greg Burgess
- Hans Dersch
- Nelson Diebel
- Lawrence Frostad
- Doug Gjertsen
- Joe Hudepohl
- Scott Jaffe
- Tom Jager (team captain)
- Shaun Jordan
- Dan Jorgensen
- Ron Karnaugh
- Sean Killion
- Pablo Morales
- Eric Namesnik
- Jon Olsen
- Jeff Rouse
- Roque Santos
- Tripp Schwenk
- Royce Sharp
- Melvin Stewart
- Joel Thomas
- Dave Wharton
- Mike Hastings
- Chris Martin
- Richard Quick
- Eddie Reese (men's head coach)
- Mark Schubert (women's head coach)
- Richard Shoulberg
- Nort Thornton
- Jon Urbanchek
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