Gerald Item
Gerald Herman Peter Item was an Indonesian swimmer. He competed in numerous international sporting events representing Indonesia. At the 1978 Asian Games, he won seven medals. At the 1982 Asian Games, he collected three bronze medals in relay events. Item also participated in the Southeast Asian Games of 1977, [Aquatics at the Aquatics at the 1979 Southeast Asian Games|1979 Southeast Asian Games|1979] and 1981 and received a total of seventeen individual medals, including five gold in 1979 alone.
After retiring from swimming, he and his wife, Elfira Nasution, formed a swimming club named Elfira Swima Gemilang. He and his family left Indonesia in 2009 where he moved to Riverside, California and started coaching there.