Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Curtis Ray "Curt"•Canning |
Used name | Curt•Canning |
Born | 6 May 1946 in Provo, Utah (USA) |
Measurements | 191 cm / 89 kg |
Affiliations | Harvard Crimson, Cambridge (USA) |
NOC | United States |
A Salt Lake City native, Curtis Canning was All-State in football in high school but took up rowing at Harvard and never rowed on a losing crew with the Crimson. He won a gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games in the eights. After the Olympics Canning spent a year in the Peace Corps but then returned to school, attending medical school at the University of Utah, graduating in 1973. He later became a psychiatrist practicing in Logan, Utah.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1968 Summer Olympics | Rowing | USA | Curt Canning | |||
Eights, Men (Olympic) | United States | 6 |