Norman Bellingham (born December 23, 1964) is an American sprint canoer and Olympic champion who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won gold in the K-2 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988.
Bellingham was named Chief Operating Officer of the United States Olympic Committee in November 2006. He previously had been employed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning of Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta, a position he held from 2002.
He graduated with an economics degree from Harvard University in 1993.
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Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-2 1000 m |
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1936: Austria (Adolf Kainz, Alfons Dorfner) · 1948: Sweden (Hans Berglund, Lennart Klingström) · 1952: Finland (Kurt Wires, Yrjö Hietanen) · 1956: Germany (Michael Scheuer, Meinrad Miltenberger) · 1960: Sweden (Gert Fredriksson, Sven-Olov Sjödelius) · 1964: Sweden (Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Gunnar Utterberg) · 1968: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Volodymyr Morozov) · 1972: Soviet Union (Nikolai Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk) · 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Nahorny, Vladimir Romanovsky) · 1980: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich, Sergei Chukhray) · 1984: Canada (Hugh Fisher, Alwyn Morris) · 1988: United States (Greg Barton, Norman Bellingham) · 1992: Germany (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche) · 1996: Italy (Daniele Scarpa, Antonio Rossi) · 2000: Italy (Antonio Rossi, Beniamino Bonomi) · 2004: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson) · 2008: Germany (Andreas Ihle, Martin Hollstein)
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