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Equestrians at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Hans Günter Winkler, David Broome, Norman Elder, Reiner Klimke, Alwin Schockemöhle, Gustav Fischer
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781155701813
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Chapters: Hans Günter Winkler, David Broome, Norman Elder, Reiner Klimke, Alwin Schockemöhle, Gustav Fischer, Raimondo D'inzeo, William Steinkraus, Piero D'inzeo, Fritz Thiedemann, Josef Neckermann, Lawrence Morgan, Jim Elder, Bill Roycroft, Graziano Mancinelli, Frank Chapot, Henri Saint Cyr, Ivan Kalita, Sergei Filatov, Neale Lavis, Gerhard Schulz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hans Günter Winkler (born July 24, 1926 in Barmen - now part of Wuppertal) is a successful former German show jumping rider. He is the only show jumper to win 5 Olympic gold medals and 7 total Olympic medals, and the only equestrian in any discipline to compete and win medals in 6 different Olympic Games. In the 1950s and 1960s Winkler was one of Germany's most popular athletes. He won his first German championship in 1952, making him one of the favorites for the Olympic Games 1956. 1956 found the Equestrian Games in Stockholm, as the athletes and their horses were not allowed to travel to Melbourne due to quarantine restrictions. In the first round, Winkler pulled a groin muscle at the penultimate obstacle, after his mare took off early and threw him out of position. Despite the pain, Winkler decided to ride in the third round, as the German team would be eliminated without him. After he was given tranquilizers, Winkler found that he was comfortable sitting, but riding was difficult and painful. Any drugs that could reduce the pain enough to make him comfortable in the saddle would also reduce his mental capacity, and therefore he was only given black coffee before his ride to try to help reduce his dizziness and double-vision. However, his great mare, Halla, sensed that her rider was not right, and performed the entire course clear with only steering from Winkler, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14425283
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