| Chris Huntington | |
| Sport: | Rowing |
| Birth Date: | 22 September 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
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]