fullname coach club birth_date article_title strokes name
seth van neerden jack nelson fort lauderdale swim team 1968 seth van neerden
 breaststroke seth van neerden
seth van neerden

seth van neerden -lrb- born 1968 -rrb- is a former national record-holding swimmer and national team member from the united states .
he competed at the 1995 pan american games , where he won three gold medals : as part of the american team 's winning 4 × 100-meter medley relay , and for winning the 100 - and 200-meter breaststroke events .
he received a bronze medal at the 1993 fina short course world championships .
van neerden also won several u.s. national titles in his career .
at the 1994 u.s. nationals he tied the american record in the 100m breaststroke , with a time of 1:01.40 .
this record would stand for two years .
considered one of the world 's top breastrokers of the 1990s , van neerden finished in the top 20 world rankings for the 100 breaststroke every year from 1990 to 1996 .
he consistently ranked as one of the world 's fastest 200 breaststrokers throughout these years as well .
world-famous swimming coach jack nelson , who trained van neerden in the early and mid 1990s , stated `` seth van neerden is america 's finest breaststroker . ''
