William Bruce BENTSEN

Bill Bentsen won both his Olympic medals crewing for Buddy Melges, Jr., and they combined to win the Flying Dutchman class at the 1967 Pan American Games. Bentsen graduated from Denison, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and undertook post gradate studies at the London School of Economics, Yale, and the University of Chicago. He was later a faculty member at Beloit College for 10 years before becoming a full-time sports administrator with the U.S. Yacht Racing Union.