Chip Lubsen
{{Short description|American rower (born 1955)}}
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| birth_place = Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
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Walter Harry "Chip" Lubsen, Jr. (born July 13, 1955) is an American former competitive rower and Olympic silver medalist. He was a member of Cornell University's varsity heavyweight eight boat that won the IRA championship in 1977.
Olympian
Lubsen participated in the men's eights at the 1976 Summer Olympics and placed 9th overall. He qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. Lubsen did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.{{cite book|last1=Caroccioli|first1=Tom|last2=Caroccioli|first2=Jerry|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|date=2008 |publisher=New Chapter Press|location=Highland Park, IL|isbn=978-0942257403|pages=243–253}} He was a member of the American men's eights team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/chip-lubsen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418045157/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/chip-lubsen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Chip Lubsen}}
References
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Category:Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States in rowing
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Congressional Gold Medal recipients
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing
Category:Rowers at the 1979 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
Category:Cornell Big Red rowers
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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