Mark Hamilton (born February 6, 1958) is an American
sprint canoer
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who competed in the early to mid-1990s. Competing in two
Summer Olympics
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, he earned his best finish of ninth in the
K-4 1000 m event at
Barcelona
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in
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
1958 births
American male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for the United States
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American sportsmen
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