Mark Todd (equestrian)
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Mark Todd and Major Milestone at the Dairy Farm during the cross-country phase of Burghley Horse Trials 2010
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| Full name | Mark James Todd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 New Zealand
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| Discipline | Eventing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1 March 1956 Cambridge, New Zealand |
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Sir Mark James Todd KNZM CBE (born 1 March 1956) is a New Zealand horseman noted for his accomplishments in the discipline of eventing, voted Rider of the 20th century by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.
He won gold medals at Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988) Olympics, the Badminton Horse Trials on four occasions, the Burghley Horse Trials five times, and as a member of New Zealand’s Eventing team, he won gold medals at the World Championships in 1990 and 1998 (Rome), plus 20 or more other international events, and numerous other international individual and team titles.
In 1988, he was announced as the New Zealand Sportsperson of the year and winner of the Supreme Halberg Award. In the same year, he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
On 25 April 2011, Todd completed a fourth Badminton victory riding NZB Land Vision, becoming the oldest winner of the event.
By winning his fifth Olympic medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Todd equaled the Olympic record for the longest gap between first and last Olympic medals, 28 years, and shares the record for most Olympic medals won by a New Zealander with canoeists Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald. The 2016 Games were Todd's seventh, having previously competed in 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2008 and 2012. Todd is the first New Zealander to have competed at seven Olympic Games.
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