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Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
About Uğur Taner
- Mehmet Ugur Taner (born June 20, 1974) was a Turkish swimmer. Taner was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of Erol and Gulcin Taner, who moved to the United States one year later.
- He attended high school at Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington, where he excelled in swimming.
- The summer after his senior year, he swam for Turkey in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
- He swam for University of California, Berkeley and was on the US national team from 1993 to 2000, winning nine national individual titles as well as 1994 world champion in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. In 2000, Taner married another internationally recognized swimmer, Liesl Kolbisen, and began to work at her family’s swim school, La Petite Baleen.
- Taner and Kolbisen have 7 children together.
- A son, Brooks, was born in 2001; daughter Channing followed in 2003; son Vaughn in 2006; daughter Charis in 2008; son Grey in 2010; son Canaan in 2013; and daughter Sevilen in 2017. Since January 2006, Taner has been playing guitar with the Matt Nightingale Band as well as numerous churches including Mount Hermon.
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