Chris Penny competed for the US eight for four consecutive years starting in 1983, winning major international medals each year. In 1983 he won gold at the Pan American Games, followed by a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, a bronze at the 1985 World Championships, and a gold at the 1986 Goodwill Games. Penny graduated from Princeton in 1985 and then studied at St. John’s College, Oxford. He was a member of the crew team there but in 1987 was left off the Oxford squad for The Boat Race against Cambridge, when he and several other American members of the Oxford team protested the training methods of Oxford coach Daniel Topolski, an event that became known as “The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny.” Penny rejoined the crew and took part in The Boat Race in 1988.
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