Jeff Kostoff
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jeffrey James Kostoff | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Jeff" | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 19, 1965 Upland, California | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle,individual medley | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||
Jeffrey James Kostoff(born August 19, 1965)[1]is an American former competitionswimmerwho represented the United States at two consecutiveSummer Olympics.At the1984 Summer Olympicsin Los Angeles, he finished in sixth place in the final of themen's 400-meter individual medley.Four years later at the1988 Summer Olympicsin Seoul, South Korea, he advanced to the B Final of the400-meter individual medleyand finished ninth overall.
He held the national high school record in the 500-yard freestyle for 30 years (1983-2013),[2]and held theStanfordrecord in the 1,650-yard freestyle for 21 years (1986–2007).[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^"Kostoff, Miss Richardson Win 3d Events", The New York Times. June 28, 1983. Section A, p. 24.
- ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2007-09-30.Retrieved2007-09-01.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^Stanford's fastest NCAA swim meet just isn't fast enoughby Keith Peters, Palo Alto Online. Published 2007-03-21; retrieved 2009-06-18
External links[edit]
- Interview with Jeff Kostoffby Cheryl Wagner, from the Terrapin Masters Swim Club website; retrieved 2009-06-18.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070830020456/http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/athletics/Winter/Swimming/Articles/crippenF3.htm
  | This biographical article related to a United States swimmer is astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American male freestyle swimmers
- American male medley swimmers
- Sportspeople from Upland, California
- Stanford Cardinal men's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for the United States
- Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- 20th-century American people
- American swimming biography stubs