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| Born | September 22, 1960 Bethesda, Maryland, United States | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||
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Chris Huntington (born September 22, 1960) is an American rower. [1] He won gold at the 1987 Pan American Games, [2] and competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. [3] Huntington later became a news correspondent for CNN. [4]
Huntington was born in Bethesda, Maryland in 1960. [1] He rowed and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, before moving to England to study at the University of Oxford. [1] At Oxford, Huntington was part of what was known as the "Oxford Mutiny" prior to the 1987 Boat Race. [1] [5] [6] Huntington, along with Dan Lyons, 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. [7] [8]
At the World Rowing Championships, Huntington won two bronze medals. [1] His first came in eights event in 1985, [9] and his second bronze came the following year in the coxed four event. [10] He then went on to win a silver medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games, [1] and the gold medal in the eight at the 1987 Pan American Games. [1] At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Huntington competed in the men's coxed four, with the US team finishing in fifth place. [11]
After his rowing career, Huntington worked for nearly two decades as a correspondent and producer for CNN. [1] [12] He then went to work in the energy sector, becoming a business partner in a renewable energy company. [1] [13]
