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Nick Skelton CBE
Personal information
Full name
Nicholas David Skelton
Nationality
British
Discipline
Show jumping
Born
(1957-12-30) 30 December 1957 (age 66) Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
Medal record
Representing Great Britain
Equestrian Showjumping
Olympic Games
2012 London
Team Jumping
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Individual jumping
Alternative Olympics
1980 Rotterdam
Team jumping
World Championships
1986 Aachen
Team jumping
1982 Dublin
Team jumping
1986 Aachen
Individual jumping
1990 Stockholm
Team jumping
1998 Rome
Team Jumping
European Championships
1985 Dinard
Team jumping
1987 St Gallen
Team jumping
1989 Rotterdam
Team jumping
1991 La Baule
Team jumping
1993 Gijon
Team jumping
1995 St Gallen
Team jumping
1987 St Gallen
Individual jumping
2011 Madrid
Team jumping
2011 Madrid
Individual jumping
Junior European Championships
1975 Dornbirn
Individual jumping
1974 Lucerne
Team jumping
1975 Dornbirn
Team jumping
Nicholas David SkeltonCBE (born 30 December 1957, Bedworth, Warwickshire) is a British former equestrian who competed in show jumping. He retired at the age of 59 years old, on 5 April 2017. He began riding at age 18 months and in 1975 took two team silvers and an individual gold at the Junior European Championships.
He has competed numerous times at the European Show Jumping Championships, winning three golds, three silvers and three bronzes both individually and with the British team over 26 years. In 1980, he competed in the Alternative Olympics, where he helped the British team to a silver medal. He currently holds the British show jumping high jump record, which he set in 1978.
His most notable successes occurred in back-to-back Olympic Games in the swansong of his career. In 2012, at the age of 54, Skelton won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Great Britain team. Four years later, he won the individual Olympic gold medal at his seventh Olympic Games.[1] Having won both team and individual Olympic gold, Skelton and his horse, Big Star, retired together shortly after the 2016 Games.
^"Rio Olympics 2016: GB's Nick Skelton wins show jumping gold". BBC News. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
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