Dan Kutler (born May 2, 1970 in Mountain View, California) is a former butterfly swimmer, who was born in the United States, and swam for Israel in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He is Jewish[1] and grew up in Santa Clara, California, competed for Cupertino High School, and competed for UCLA from 1988 to 1992 where he was a 7-time All American.[2]

Dan Kutler
Medal record
Men's Swimming
Summer Universiade
Representing the  United States
Gold medal – first place 1991 Sheffield 4x100m Medley
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Sheffield 100m Butterfly

Kutler then moved to Israel in 1994 to begin swimming for their national team in preparation for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. In Atlanta, he swam the four-man 4x100 meter medley with Yoav Bruck, Eitan Urbach, and Vadim Alexeev.[3] The team reached the final, taking eighth place.[4] He retired after the Olympics.[5]

In 1997 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[2]

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  1. ^ "Jewish Post 5 June 1991 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
  2. ^ a b "Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home". scjewishsportshof.com.
  3. ^ "The Jewish Post & News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  4. ^ "Kutler, Dan". jewsinsports. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Uc_Hilal". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved March 14, 2011.

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