Stephan van den Berg (born 20 February 1962) is a retired

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from the

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. He was

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in 1983 and in the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

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won the first Olympic Gold medal in the

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for the

. After that he turned professional and therefore missed the 1988 Olympics. He returned to amateurs to compete at the 1992 Olympics,

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where he finished in seventh place in the Men's Lechner A-390.

Professional life

Stephan van den Berg is, with his brothers, owner of ''VANDENBERG Surf''. With outlets in

Almere Almere () is a Planned community, planned List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Flevoland, Netherlands, located about 20 km ...

Hoorn Hoorn () is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland. Hoorn is located on the Markermeer, 20 kilometers ( ...

and

Zandvoort Zandvoort () is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach. It is bordered by coastal dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland National Park and the Amsterdam ...

it is specialized in the popular sports like: *

Windsurfing Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berg, Stephan van den Living people 1962 births People from Hoorn Dutch windsurfers Dutch male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Windglider Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Lechner A-390 Olympic sailors of the Netherlands Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in sailing Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from North Holland 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people

Professional life

Further reading

1984 Olympics (Los Angeles)

1992 Olympics (Barcelona)

References