Robert Kasting

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.

Kastings was a member of the Board of Directors for Calgary Olympic Organizing Committee of the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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. He attended McGill Law School and practised law in Vancouver in the areas of administrative law and estate litigation. He was a candidate for mayor of Vancouver in fall of 2014.