Glenn Beringen

Glenn Beringen

Personal information
Full name	Glenn Stuart Beringen
National team	Australia
Born	(1964-09-16) 16 September 1964 Adelaide, South Australia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for Australia Olympic Games Silver 1984 Los Angeles 200 m breaststroke Pan Pacific Games Silver 1985 Tokyo 200 m breaststroke

Glenn Stuart Beringen (born 16 September 1964) is an Australian former breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s who won a silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was continually thwarted at the international level by the Canadian Victor Davis. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[1]

Commonwealth games

At the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Beringen was roundly beaten into second place by Davis, trailing home by 2.81 seconds. It was more of the same in Los Angeles, when Davis won by a margin of 2.45 seconds, the largest in an Olympic breaststroke event for half a century. Beringen also competed in the 200-metre individual medley, where he was eliminated in the heats.

Coach

Beringen later became a coach, beginning at the South Australian Sports Institute from 1991 until 2002, before serving at the Australian Institute of Sport until 2004, when he retired. Among his athletes at the AIS were Olympic gold medallists Petria Thomas and Sarah Ryan. He coached his athletes for three individual short course world records, two short course and long course relay world records.

Glen moved back to Adelaide where he worked for a short from Swim SA promoting the sport and coached a squad of elite SA swimmers. He is currently living in Townsville and is coaching the Kokoda Spirit swimming team, a partnership between Townsville Grammar School and Kokoda Memorial Pool.^[2]

References

Bibliography

• Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. pp. 140–146. ISBN 0-7333-0884-8.