Chris Penny (rower)
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| Full name | Christopher Gore Penny | ||||||||||||||
| Born | May 4, 1962(age62) Morristown, New Jersey,U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Christopher Gore Penny(born May 4, 1962) is an American former competitive rower and Olympic silver medalist. He was a member of the American men's eights team that won the silver medal at the1984 Summer OlympicsinLos Angeles, California.[1]
A 1985 graduate ofPrinceton University,Penny studied atSt John's College, Oxford,[2]and took part inThe Boat Racein 1988 after being left off the squad in 1987 when he, three other American oarsmen, and an American coxswain protested Oxford coachDaniel Topolski's training regimen (an incident known as "The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny" ).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill;et al."Chris Penny".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Sports Reference LLC.Archived fromthe originalon April 18, 2020.
- ^"Oxonian Olympians".University of Oxford.Archived fromthe originalon September 20, 2012.RetrievedAugust 15,2012.
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- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in rowing
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
- Oxford University Boat Club rowers
- Sportspeople from Morristown, New Jersey
- Princeton University alumni
- Rowers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- American rowing Olympic medalist stubs