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{{Short description|Israeli swimmer (born 1970)}}
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{{Infobox swimmer
| name             = Dan Kutler 
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| country          = {{nowrap|Israel (Olympic Team)}} 
| collegeteam      = {{nowrap|[[University of California at Los Angeles|U. California Los Angeles]]}}
| coach            = [[Ron Ballatore]] 
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| event            = butterfly, freestyle 
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|May 2, 1970}}
| birth_place      = [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]], [[California]], [[U.S.]]
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| honors           = 7xAll American<br>(UCLA) 
| headercolor      = lightsteelblue
| show-medals      = yes
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Swimming (sport)|Swimming]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Summer Universiade]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalGold | [[Swimming at the 1991 Summer Universiade|1991 Sheffield]] | 4x100m Medley}} 
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1991 Summer Universiade|1991 Sheffield]] | 100m Butterfly}}  
|native_name=דן קוטלר|native_name_lang=he}}

'''Dan Kutler''' ({{Langx|he|דן קוטלר}}; born May 2, 1970, in [[Mountain View, California]]) is an American-born former swimmer and butterfly specialist, who swam for [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] and participated for [[Israel]] in the [[1996 Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST19910605-01.1.24&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title=Jewish Post 5 June 1991 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program|website=newspapers.library.in.gov}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://scjewishsportshof.com/kutler.html|title=Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home|website=scjewishsportshof.com}}</ref>

Kutler was born in Mountain View, California on May 2, 1970.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/48364|title=Olympedia Biography, Dan Kutler|website=olympedia.org|access-date=11 February 2025}}</ref>  He is [[Jewish]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST19910605-01.1.24&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title=Jewish Post 5 June 1991 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program|website=newspapers.library.in.gov}}</ref> and grew up in [[Santa Clara, California]].

Kutler swam for [[Cupertino High School]], where he was a three time [[All-America#Swimming and diving|All-American swimmer]], and captured All America honors in [[water polo]].<ref name="auto"/>  Completing his Senior year in High School at 18, he attended the August, 1988 Olympic trials at the [[Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center|Texas Swim Center]] in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], and placed 57th in the 50-meter free with a time of 23.90, far from the third place finish needed to qualify in the event.<ref>"Olympic Trials Results, Men's Preliminaries, 50-meter freestyle", ''Austin American Statesman'', Austin, Texas, August 13, 1988, pg. 58</ref>   

== University of California Los Angeles ==
He competed for [[UCLA]] from 1988 to 1992 under Hall of Fame Coach [[Ron Ballatore]], where he was a 7-time All American. Kutler's teams at UCLA were perennial top-ten contenders in NCAA national competition.<ref name=p12mediaguide>''[https://static.pac-12.com/sports/swimming-diving/pdf/M-SWIM_DIVING.pdf  Pac-12 Men's Swimming Media Guide]'', Pac-12 Conference, Walnut Creek, California, pp. 1&ndash;2, 10 (2014).  Retrieved July 7, 2014.</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://scjewishsportshof.com/kutler.html|title=Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home|website=scjewishsportshof.com}}</ref>  Considered one of the Pac-10 Conference’s top sprinters and relay members while at UCLA, at the 1991 [[World University Games|FISU World University Games]] in England, he was a member of the UCLA’s gold medal 400-Meter Medley Relay Team.  In 1990, he helped UCLA capture a championship in the Pac-10 400-Meter Medley Relay, and a second-place finish in the 200-Meter Freestyle Relay.  Kutler placed first in both the 100-Meter Freestyle (51.50) and the 100-Meter Butterfly (55.20) at the 1990 Olympic Festival.<ref name="auto"/>  At the 1989 Olympic Festival in Oklahoma City, he won a gold in the 100-meter butterfly.<ref>"Olympics, US Olympic Festival", ''The Grand Rapids Press'', Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 20, 1989, pg. 24</ref>

== 1996 Atlanta Olympics ==
After completing UCLA, Kutler moved to [[Israel]] in 1994 to begin swimming for their national team in preparation for the [[1996 Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]]. In [[Atlanta]], he swam the butterfly leg for the four-man 4x100 meter medley with [[Yoav Bruck]], Eitan Urbach, and [[Vadim Alexeev]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2DkhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MGEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1874,2120175&dq=vadim+alexeyev+jewish&hl=en|title=The Jewish Post & News - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2018-07-18}}</ref>  The team reached the final, taking eighth place.<ref name="jewsinsports1">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=136|title=Kutler, Dan|work=jewsinsports|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref>  He retired after the Olympics.<ref name="jewsinsports2">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=135 |title=Uc_Hilal |publisher=Jewsinsports.org |date= |accessdate=March 14, 2011}}</ref>

He captured a silver medal at the Men's 50-meter Butterfly with a time of 24.71 in France on March 2, 1996 at the FINA Swimming World Cup, and took the a bronze in the Men's 50-meter Butterfly, with a time of 24.40 on October 2, 1996 at the FINA World Cup in Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1068308/wd|title=World Aquatics, Dan Kutler, Previous Results|website=worldaquatics.com|access-date=11 February 2025}}</ref>

In 1997 he was inducted into the [[Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref name="auto"/>

==See also==
*[[List of Jews in sports#Swimming|List of select Jewish swimmers]]

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1970 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Israel]]
[[Category:Israeli male butterfly swimmers]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Jewish American swimmers]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Mountain View, California]]
[[Category:American male swimmers]]
[[Category:Summer World University Games medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States]]
[[Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the United States]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade]]
[[Category:21st-century American Jews]]
[[Category:Jews from California]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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