Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roger van Hamburg (born April 5, 1954 in Cardón, Venezuela) is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his home country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There he was eliminated in the heats of the 400m Individual Medley, and as a member (third swimmer) in the 4x100m and the 4x200m Freestyle Relay. In recent days he runs a swimming school near Sydney, Australia. West Germany (German: Westdeutschland) is the common English, but not official name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.