Chris Huntington (born September 22, 1960) is an American

rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is di ...

. He won gold at the

1987 Pan American Games The 1987 Pan American Games, officially known as the X Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event held in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on August 7–23, 1987. Over 4,300 athletes from 38 countries in the Americas c ...

, and competed in the men's coxed four event at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. Huntington later became a news correspondent for

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Biography

Huntington was born in

Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda () is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in ...

in 1960. He rowed and studied at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, before moving to England to study at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. At Oxford, Huntington was part of what was known as the "Oxford Mutiny" prior to the 1987 Boat Race. Huntington, along with

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, Chris Penny and Jonathan Fish departed from Oxford's squad in protest of the training and coaching being delivered by the team coach Dan Topolski. At the

World Rowing Championships The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation). It is a week-long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the ...

, Huntington won two bronze medals. His first came in eights event in 1985, and his second bronze came the following year in the coxed four event. He then went on to win a silver medal at the

1986 Goodwill Games The 1986 Goodwill Games was the inaugural edition of the international multi-sport event created by Ted Turner, which was held from 5 – 20 July 1986. The main stadium was the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The Game ...

, and the gold medal in the eight at the

. At the

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, Huntington competed in the men's coxed four, with the US team finishing in fifth place. After his rowing career, Huntington worked for nearly two decades as a correspondent and producer for

. He then went to work in the energy sector, becoming a business partner in a renewable energy company.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Huntington, Chris 1960 births Living people American male rowers Olympic rowers for the United States Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bethesda, Maryland Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing Rowers at the 1987 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games