Henri Chammartin

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Henri Chammartin medal table

Dressage riding

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver 1952 Dressage riding, team
(with Woehler )
bronze 1956 Dressage riding, team
(with Woehler )
gold 1964 Dressage, singles
(with Woermann )
silver 1964 Dressage, team
(with Woermann )
bronze 1968 Dressage, team
(with Wolfdietrich )
European championships
gold 1963 Dressage, individual
(with Wolfdietrich )
bronze 1963 Dressage, singles
(with Woermann )
gold 1965 Dressage, individual
(with Wolfdietrich )
bronze 1967 Dressage, team
(with Wolfdietrich )

Henri Chammartin (born July 30, 1918 in Chavannes-sous-Orsonnens , † May 30, 2011 in Bern ) was a Swiss dressage rider and Olympic champion .

career

Chammartin was born in 1918 as the son of an agricultural family in Chavannes-sous-Orsonnens in the Swiss canton of Friborg . He graduated from the field artillery recruiting school and then went to the Thun directing institute. Here he was active as a rider aspirant. Subsequently, from 1949 until his retirement, Henri Chammartin worked as a rider at the Swiss Federal Military Horse Institute in Bern.

During this time Chammartins great sporting successes fall. Between 1952 and 1968 he won a total of five Olympic medals (including two silver and two bronze with the team) and five times the European championship. Henri Chammartin achieved the greatest success of his career at the 1964 Olympic Games when he won the Olympic gold medal on his legendary horse Woermann.

A year earlier he won gold and bronze medals at the first European dressage rider championships with Wolfdietrich and Woermann . Two years later he won individual gold again with Wolfdietrich at the European Championships in 1965. Because of these successes, he is considered one of the most successful dressage riders. He ended his international sporting career as a dressage rider in 1968 after the Olympic Games in Mexico. There he had won team bronze again with the Swiss team. In 1969 he won the Swiss championship with Oreillard .

After his retirement he moved with his wife into a farmhouse, where he kept small animals and occasionally also gave riding lessons. In 2002 he moved back to Bern. From 2009 he lived here in a retirement home, where he died on May 30, 2011 at the age of 92.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olympic dressage champion Henri Chammartin has died , Urs Fankhauser, May 31, 2011
  2. ↑ Legendary Olympian Henri Chammartin Passed Away , May 30, 2011 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Chammartin, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Chavannes-sous-Orsonnens
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2011
Place of death Bern