Margie Goldstein-Engel
Margie Goldstein-Engle
on Coraya Z; June 7, 2009 |
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| Personal information | |
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| Birth name | Margie Goldstein |
| Nationality | American |
| Born |
March 31, 1958 Wellington, Florida |
| Height | 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) |
| Weight | 105 lb (48 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Equestrianism |
| Event(s) | Show jumping |
| Achievements and titles | |
| National finals | 10x Rider of the Year (American Grand Prix Association) |
| Personal best(s) | World-record-high jump of 7 feet 8 3⁄4 inches (2.356 m) in 1987 |
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Margie Goldstein-Engle (born March 31, 1958) is an American show jumping equestrian, and a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year.
She was born in Wellington, Florida, to Mona (an elementary school principal and teacher) and Irvin Goldstein (an accountant), and is Jewish. She grew up in her middle-class family in South Miami, Florida, with two older brothers. In third grade, she became passionate about horses.
At the age of nine, she took jobs at horse barns and dog kennels as a way to pay for riding lessons. Less affluent than other riders, she said: "You're maybe not dressed like the other riders. You don't have the custom things, you don't have the top clothing, and a lot of my stuff was hand-me-downs.... It was more cliquish than anything. They'd more snub you than tease you."
She attended South Miami High School and North Miami Beach High School, and graduated from Florida International University with a 4.0 GPA, majoring in business education. She married her husband, horse veterinarian Steve Engle, in 1995.
Goldstein-Engle won 6 World Cups and 20 Nations Cups between 1984 and 2005. The FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale) ranked her as high as # 6 all-time.
In 1987, she recorded a world-record-high jump of 7 feet 8 3⁄4 inches (2.36 m). Speaking of such high jump event, she said: "You have to figure the horse either has a lot of trust, or a lot of heart, because once the wall gets over six and a half feet, it looks more like the side of a building."
In 1991, she suffered broken bones and nerve damage in her left foot as the result of a fall at a horse show. Doctors told her she would likely not ever walk normally again. The following week, she was again riding, and 10 weeks later she resumed competing. In 1992, a 1,200-pound (540 kg) horse fell on her at a show, opening a deep 12-inch (300 mm) cut on her back and breaking four of her ribs. In July 1998, she received injuries to her face as the result of a fall. She rode the next day. She has also fractured her left shoulder, and broken her collarbone twice, her arm, her wrist, and two fingers.
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