Amy Tryon

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Amy Tryon medal table

Eventing riding

United StatesUnited States United States
Olympic Summer Games
bronze 2004 Eventing, team
(with Poggio II )
World Equestrian Games
gold 2002 Eventing, team
(with Poggio II )
bronze 2006 Eventing, Singles
(with Poggio II )

Amy Tryon (born February 24, 1970 in Redmond , Washington , † April 12, 2012 in Duvall , Washington) was an American eventing rider . She took part in two Olympic Games.

Career

Tryon had early contact with horses through her mother, who rode herself. When she was only one year old, she and her older sister had their first own pony. At the age of five she rode her first tests. She studied at Central Washington University in Ellensburg . Amy Tryon initially worked as a firefighter, while riding as a hobby. Several championships followed with her horse Poggio II , including two Olympic Games. She had her greatest individual success in 2006 when she won the individual bronze medal at the World Equestrian Games in Aachen. In the same year she gave up her old profession and became a professional rider for good. Tryon was married for 16 years, her husband also worked in the fire station.

Amy Tryon had a low point in her career in 2007: Tryon rode the gelding Le Samurai at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event . Before the last obstacle of the cross-country course, Le Samurai stumbled and injured himself, Tryon still rode to the finish. After the ride, the gelding was taken to a veterinary clinic, but had to be euthanized due to the severity of the injury. The FEI Tribunal sentenced her to a two-month ban and a fine. The guilt-reducing assessment was that she publicly apologized for her misconduct, that she did not recognize the situation at the time and did not react correctly. In the case of deliberate behavior, a sentence up to a life-long ban would have been possible. In addition, the organizer was warned by the FEI Tribunal that the rider should have been stopped much earlier before the finish.

Amy Tryon died in her sleep on April 12, 2012 after she lay down to rest. The previous Sunday a horse had dislocated Tryon's jaw and she was operated on. As a result, according to her husband, she took muscle relaxants , pain relievers and "apparently some other things" too. The autopsy found an (accidental) overdose of combined opiates as the cause of death .

Horses

  • Poggio II (* 1992, former name: Chesterstimetoofly ), brown English thoroughbred gelding, father: Polynesian Flyer xx, mother's father : Toooverprime xx, formerly a racehorse . Tryon found the horse through a classified ad in the Seattle Times . Poggio , who was previously active as a racehorse in gallop races , was advertised here as a pack horse for mountain tours.
  • Woodstock (* 1994), bay English thoroughbred gelding, father: Candy's Gold xx, mother's father: Norcliff xx, ridden by Elinor Mac Phail since 2007
  • Le Samurai (* 1995; † 2007), brown Holstein half- breed Wallach, father: Sabotage, mother father: Out of the east xx

successes

Olympic Summer Games
  • 2004, Athens : with Poggio II 3rd place with the team and 6th place in the individual ranking
  • 2008, Hong Kong : 7th place with the team with Poggio II (fall on the cross-country course)
World Equestrian Games
  • 2002, Jerez de la Frontera: with Poggio II 1st place with the team and 45th place in the individual ranking
  • 2006, Aachen : with Poggio II 4th place with the team and 3rd place in the individual ranking
Successes in CCI 4 * tournaments
  • 2002, CCI 4 * Lexington : 3rd place with Poggio II
  • 2006, CCI 4 * Lexington: 5th place with Woodstock

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tragic death of US event artist Amy Tryon , Pferdplus, April 13, 2012
  2. ↑ US Olympian Amy Tryon dies at 42 , April 13, 2012 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c FEI short biography and championship successes
  4. ↑ The Amy Tryon case: Riding with an injured horse was not an intention ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The cause of Amy Tryon's death clarified , St. George , June 20, 2012
  6. ↑ More on the death of Amy Tryon , St. Georg, June 26, 2012
  7. ↑ FEI horse database: Poggio II
  8. ^ FEI horse database: Woodstock
  9. ^ FEI horse database: Le Samurai
  10. ↑ Descent from Le Samurai , allbreedpedigree.com
  11. ↑ Olympia: Terrain - "He did the job of his life" ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tryon, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Redmond (Washington)
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2012
Place of death Duvall (Washington)