Stephan van den Berg

In this Dutch name, the surname is van den Berg, not Berg.

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

Stephan van den Berg in 1985
Personal information
Born	(1962-02-20) 20 February 1962 (age 63) Hoorn
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sailing career
Class(es)	Windglider Lechner A-390
Competition record Representing  Netherlands Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Windglider 7th 1992 Barcelona Men's Lechner A-390
Updated on 19 February 2014

Professional life[17]

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:

• Windsurfing
• Kitesurfing
• Wingfoiling
• SUP
• Watersports
• Winter sports

Further reading

• (in Dutch) Dutch Olympic Committee

1984 Olympics (Los Angeles)  United States (USA)

• Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (part 1) (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1985. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (part 2) (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1985. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (part 3) (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1985. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (part 1) (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1985. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (part 2) (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1985. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (part 3) (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1985. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

1992 Olympics (Barcelona)  Spain (ESP)

• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume I The Challenge: From the idea to the nomination" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume II The Means: Objectives, resources and venues" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume III The Organisation: The preparation of the Games" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume IV The Games: Sixteen days in summer" (PDF). Barcelona. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume V The Results" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.