Jere Hård (born 7 December 1978 in Jyväskylä, Finland)Hård's entry
on www.sports-reference.com. is a retired male

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and butterfly

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from Finland. He twice swam for his native country at the Olympics: in

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

. He mainly excelled in the – non-Olympic – 50 m butterfly event, in both long (50 m) and short course (25 m).

References

1978 births Living people Finnish male butterfly swimmers Finnish male freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Finland Sportspeople from Jyväskylä European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-swimming-bio-stub