Earl Foster Thomson

Earl Foster Thomson medal table
Eventing rider
United States
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1932 Los Angeles	Eventing (team)
gold	1948 London	Eventing (team)
silver	1932 Los Angeles	Eventing (individual)
silver	1936 Berlin	Eventing (individual)
silver	1948 London	Dressage (team)

Earl Foster "Tommy" Thomson (born August 14, 1900 in Cleveland , † July 5, 1971 in Santa Barbara ) was an American eventing and dressage rider.

army

Thomson graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. He was awarded a Silver Star during World War II while serving as Chief of Staff of the 10th Mountain Division in Italy .

Sports

Earl Foster Thomson was very successful as a rider, especially in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1932 he competed with his mare Jenny Camp at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , where he won the gold medal in eventing with the team and the silver medal in the individual. He was able to repeat the latter success, again at Jenny Camp , at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .

Twelve years later, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London , Thomson again succeeded in winning two medals. On the one hand, riding Reno Rhythm , he won first place in eventing with the team, as he had done 16 years before, and on the other hand he won the silver medal in team dressage riding on Pancraft .

After finishing his active career, Thomson acted as referee at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and as chef d'equipe of the American eventing team at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome .

Web links

• Earl Foster Thomson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )