Scott Erik Jaffe (born April 29, 1969) is an American former competition
swimmer
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and Olympic medalist. Jaffe represented the United States at the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
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.
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
["Van Neerden Last", ''The Miami Herald'', Miami, Florida, pg. 167, 3 March 1992] 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.
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He studied at the ]University of California, Berkeley
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, where he swam for the California Golden Bears
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swimming and diving team.[
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See also
* List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming.
Men's events 50 metre freestyle
100 metre freestyle
200 metre freestyle
400 metre freestyle
800 metre freestyle
1500 metre freestyle
100 metre backstroke
200 metre ...
* List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
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Notable faculty members are in the article List of University of California, Be ...
References
External links
Scott Jaffe
– Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
1969 births
Living people
American male freestyle swimmers
California Golden Bears men's swimmers
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming
Sportspeople from Boston
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century American sportspeople
21st-century American sportspeople
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