Mark Pinger (born 26 June 1970) is a former

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from

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, who won a total number of two bronze medals as a relay member at the

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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 ...

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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

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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

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