Christopher Dorst (born June 5, 1956) is an American former

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with t ...

player who won a silver medal for the

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at the 1984 Summer Olympics in

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. He was slated to go with the US Olympic Team to the

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where they were the favorites for winning the gold medal, but the team ended up not competing because of the US boycott of the Olympics that year. He is a graduate of Stanford University and

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and is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame and the

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. He is married to former Stanford swimmer

Marybeth Linzmeier Marybeth Linzmeier Dorst (born July 24, 1963), née Marybeth Linzmeier, is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the Pan American Games and World University Games in the early 1980s. Early life Linzmeier was ...

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* 1956 births Living people American male water polo players Water polo goalkeepers Olympic silver medalists for the United States in water polo Water polo players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Stanford Cardinal men's water polo players Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-waterpolo-Olympic-medalist-stub

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