Geoff Gaberino
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| Full name | Geoffrey Steven Gaberino | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Geoff" | ||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||
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July 18, 1962 Dallas, Texas |
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| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 179 lb (81 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida | ||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Steven Gaberino (born July 18, 1962) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. Gaberino was a member of two national championship college teams and a four-time college national champion in relay events.
Geoff Gaberino was born in Dallas, Texas in 1962. He was a standout swimmer at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and led the team to an Eastern Prep School Championship in 1980.
Gaberino attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1981 to 1984. Gaberino won four NCAA championships and five SEC titles as a member of the Gators' winning relay teams in the 4x100-yard and 4x200-yard events. A fifteen-time All-American at the University of Florida, Gaberino served as team captain in 1983 and 1984 when the Gators men's swim team won back-to-back NCAA national team championships. Gaberino graduated from Florida with his bachelor's degree in 1984 and his master's degree in business administration in 1988.
Gaberino qualified to represent the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. The American team of David Larson, Bruce Hayes and Richard Saeger set a new world record in the Olympic preliminary heat (7:18.87), only for the Americans to break the record again in the event final later on the same day.
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