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Born | Hoorn | 20 February 1962||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Windglider Lechner A-390 | ||||||||||||||
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Updated on 19 February 2014. |
Stephan van den Berg (born 20 February 1962) is a retired windsurfer from the Netherlands. [1] He was world champion in 1983 and in the 1984 Summer Olympics, Long beach, California won the first Olympic Gold medal [2] [3] [4] in the Windglider for the Netherlands. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] After that he turned professional and therefore missed the 1988 Olympics. He returned to amateurs to compete at the 1992 Olympics, [13] [14] Barcelona [15] where he finished in seventh place in the Men's Lechner A-390. [16]
Stephan van den Berg is, with his brothers, owner of VANDENBERG Surf. With outlets in Almere, Hoorn and Zandvoort it is specialized in the popular sports like: