Robert O'Brien (born June 6, 1933) is an American

sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Competing in two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

, he earned his best finish of 11th in the K-1 10000 m event at

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1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

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1933 births American male canoeists Canoeists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for the United States Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-canoe-bio-stub