Alan Whitney was US Champion in K-2 10K and K-1 1,000 metres in 1971, also winning the North American title that year in K-2 1,000 metres. Whitney graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 with a degree in zoology, while studying pre-med, and competed at the 1972 Olympics while he was in medical school at the University of Maryland. Whitney later did a residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and became an orthopaedist, practicing in Coos Bay, Oregon, with the South Coast Orthopaedic Association.
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