Kent Mitchell

Kent Mitchell

File:Kent Mitchell 1960.jpg Mitchell in 1960
Personal information
Born	March 29, 1939 (1939-03-29) (age 87) Albany, New York, U.S.
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	Stanford Cardinal
Medal record Representing the United States Olympic Games Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo Coxed pair Bronze medal – third place 1960 Rome Coxed pair

Henry Kent Mitchell II (born March 29, 1939) is a retired American rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed pairs at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal, respectively. He was a law student at the UC Berkeley School of Law at the time. He won a bronze medal in the same event in 1960 while an undergraduate at Stanford University (class of 1961). Only two other Americans have coxed two crews to Olympic medals. He also coxed Stanford to two national championships, in 1961 and 1962.

Following graduation from law school in 1965 he practiced law in Palo Alto, California. He also set up and leads the Kent Mitchell Rowing Club, an elite masters competitive organization composed mostly of former national or Olympic champions. He also served three terms as mayor of Portola Valley, California.

He is in the Stanford University Hall of Fame and the National Rowing Hall of Fame.