Samuel Burns should not be confused with Samuel Byrns.
Samuel Burns (born February 24, 1982, Seattle, Washington) is a rower. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2005 where he started rowing in 2000.[1] While on the crew team at the University of Washington Samuel was in boats that won the National Championship and three Pac-10 Championships. After college Samuel trained with the United States National Rowing Team. He won a bronze medal in the pair at the Under-23 World Rowing Championships in Genoa, Italy and a gold medal in the coxed four at the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich, Germany.[2] He is currently an officer in the United States Army and a resident physician in orthopedic surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center. He graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2015.