Hiram Tuttle
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| bronze | 1932 | Dressage, individual (with Olympic ) |
| bronze | 1932 | Dressage, team (with Olympic ) |
Hiram Edwin Tuttle (born December 22, 1882 in Dexter , Maine , † November 11, 1956 in Fort Riley ) was an American dressage rider .
Hiram Tuttle was originally a practicing attorney and worked in Boston . He joined the United States Army in 1917 and was posted to the Cavalry School at Fort Riley in 1930. He stayed there until 1944, when he retired from the army with the rank of colonel . Tuttle is considered one of the pioneers of dressage in the USA. As a dressage rider, he was an autodidact , to whom all his horses belonged privately and which he trained himself. He was laughed at by his military comrades because of the equestrian discipline, which was still unfamiliar at the time. He also trained young dressage riders, including Robert Borg , who won the silver medal in dressage with the team at the 1948 Olympic Games in London .
In 1932 Tuttle started at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in dressage with his horse Olympic , which he had bought privately for a dollar. In the individual competition he won bronze and thus the first medal for the USA in dressage. He also won a bronze medal together with the team ( Isaac Kitts and Alvin Moore ). Four years later, he took part in the Olympic Games in Berlin , albeit less successfully: In the individual, he was 27th out of 29 starters, and the team came last.
After his death, Tuttle was buried in Fort Riley cemetery next to his horses Vast , Si Murray and Olympic . A site in Fort Riley is named Tuttle Park after him. In 2002 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the United States Dressage Federation .
literature
- Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 223 .
Web links
- Hiram Tuttle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Brian Sosby: We Are the Champions. United States Equestrian Federation, pp. 60f. , accessed July 5, 2015 . (PDF file)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Roemer Foundation / USDF Hall of Fame - Inductees - Colonel Hiram Tuttle (2002). In: usdf.org. Retrieved July 5, 2015 .
- ^ Fort Riley Driving Tour. Fort Riley, Kansas. Retrieved July 5, 2015 . (PDF file)
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| SURNAME | Tuttle, Hiram |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tuttle, Hiram Edwin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American dressage rider |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dexter , Maine |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1956 |
| Place of death | Fort Riley |