Mark Pinger (born 26 June 1970) is a former
freestyle
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swimmer
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from
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, who won a total number of two bronze medals as a relay member at the
Summer Olympics
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.
Pinger first did so in 1992 alongside
Christian Tröger
Christian-Alexander Tröger (born 6 October 1969 in Munich, Bavaria) is a former swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three bronze medals as a relay member at the Summer Olympics. He first did so in 1992 alongside Mark Pinger, Dirk Ri ...
,
Dirk Richter
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, and
Steffen Zesner. Four years later, when
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hosted the Summer Olympics, he and Tröger finished third alongside brothers
Bengt Zikarsky and
Björn Zikarsky.
Pinger was born in
Kenzingen
Kenzingen () is a town in the district of Emmendingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Elz, 23 km north of Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ...
,
Baden-Württemberg
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. He now lives in Oregon and is the General Manager for Arena North America. He swims on a regular basis with a Masters program at Stafford Hills Club which has an outdoor short course salt water pool located in Tualatin, OR.
References
databaseOlympics.com
1970 births
Living people
German male swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Germany
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
German male freestyle swimmers
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Freiburg (region)
20th-century German people
21st-century German people
People from Emmendingen (district)
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