(1950-08-28) August 28, 1950 (age 73) Ottawa, Ontario, canada
Height
1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight
80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport
Swimming
Strokes
Freestyle, butterfly
Club
Lethbridge Amateur Swim Club
College team
Yale University
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Canada
Olympic Games
1972 Munich
4×100 m medley
Commonwealth Games
1970 Edinburgh
4×100 m medley
1966 Kingston
4×110 yd freestyle
1966 Kingston
4×220 yd freestyle
1970 Edinburgh
4×100 m freestyle
1970 Edinburgh
4×200 m freestyle
Pan American Games
1967 Winnipeg
4×100 m freestyle
1967 Winnipeg
4×200 m freestyle
1971 Cali
4×100 m freestyle
1971 Cali
4×200 m freestyle
1971 Cali
100 m freestyle
Robert A. Kasting (born August 28, 1950) is a Canadian former competition swimmer who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. Kasting represented Canada at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4x100-metre medley relay, together with Canadian teammates Erik Fish, Bruce Robertson and William Mahony.
He also competed at the 1966 Commonwealth Games and won silver medals in both the 4x110-yard freestyle and the 4x220-yard freestyle. He also won two silver medals and a gold medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay, 4x200-metre freestyle relay, and the 4x100-metre medley relay, respectively. At the 1972 Olympic Games he finished in 10th place in both the 100-metre freestyle and the 100-metre butterfly.[1]
Kastings was a member of the Board of Directors for Calgary Olympic Organizing Committee of the 1988 Winter Olympics.[2]
Kasting attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was a member of the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Ivy League competition from 1970 to 1972. He was the Bulldogs team captain as a senior in 1972.
He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, but raised in Lethbridge, Alberta.
^Profile at Sports Reference
^OCO'88 (1988), XV Olympic Winter Games: Official Report (in English and French), XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee, p. 658, ISBN 0-921060-26-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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