Chris Penny (rower)

Chris Penny
Personal information
Full nameChristopher Gore Penny
BornMay 4, 1962 (1962-05-04) (age 62)
Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1984 Los Angeles Men's eight

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 the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[1]

A 1985 graduate of Princeton University, Penny studied at St John's College, Oxford,[2] and took part in The Boat Race in 1988 after being left off the squad in 1987 when he, three other American oarsmen, and an American coxswain protested Oxford coach Daniel Topolski's training regimen (an incident known as "The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny").

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Chris Penny". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "Oxonian Olympians". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2012.