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Phil Henry (rower)

American rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ28962344 ↗
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Philip Henry (born April 16, 1971) is an American former rower.

Biography

Henry trained in Princeton, New Jersey, but grew up in Seattle and attended the University of Washington. He was a member of the American eight crew that won the gold medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships. In 1999 he was World Champion in the coxed pair and won gold in the eight at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg. He was an alternate at the 2000 Summer Olympics for the United States.

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This entry incorporates text from “Phil Henry (rower)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.