Phillip Dutton

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Dutton at the 2009 Burghley Horse Trials

Phillip Peter Dutton , OAM , (born September 13, 1963 in Nyngan , New South Wales ) is an Australian eventing rider , farmer and two-time Olympic champion who has competed for the USA since 2006 .

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The farmer's son learned to ride on his parents' farm. He received his middle school education in Sydney and later graduated in agronomy . In 1991 he settled in the United States to face greater competition in competitive riding. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he and his horse True Blue Girdwood were part of the Australian team that won the gold medal. He repeated this success four years later in Sydney (on House Doctor ).

In 1998 and 2000 to 2007 Dutton was voted Rider of the Year by the American Association of Eventing Riders, and in 2005 the World Equestrian Federation FEI selected him as the world 's best rider of the year. In 2006, Dutton announced that he had accepted American citizenship. Since then, he has also competed in sport for the United States and in the same year played his first championship for the United States at the 2006 World Equestrian Games . In 2007 he competed for the USA for the first time at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day , in the same year he won the gold medal in the team competition at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro (on Truluck ). In 2008 he had his first victory at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day.

Phillip Dutton competed in all Olympic Games from 1996 to 2016, and he also took part in all World Equestrian Games from 1994 to 2014. With Mighty Nice he won the bronze medal in the individual ranking at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, while the team burst due to the elimination of two riders in the area. So Dutton won two individual medals of his career in the Deodoro riding stadium .

Dutton lives with his wife and three daughters in Avondale , Pennsylvania, and runs a farm.

successes

  • Olympic Summer Games:
    • 1996, Atlanta : with True Blue Girdwood 1st place with the Australian team
    • 2000, Sydney : with House Doctor 1st place with the Australian team
    • 2004, Athens : 13th place in the individual ranking with Nova Top and 6th place with the Australian team
    • 2008, Hong Kong : with Connaught 7th place with the US team
    • 2012, London : with Mystery Whisper 23rd place in the individual ranking and 7th place with the US team
    • 2016, Rio de Janeiro : 3rd place in the individual ranking with Mighty Nice and 12th place with the US team
  • World Equestrian Games :
    • 1994, The Hague: 18th place in the individual ranking with True Blue Girdwood and 4th place with the Australian team
    • 1998, The Hague: 18th place in the individual ranking with True Blue Girdwood
    • 2002, Jerez de la Frontera: with House Doctor 5th place in the individual ranking (individual rider outside the Australian team)
    • 2006, Aachen : with Connaught 30th place in the individual evaluation (individual rider outside the US team)
    • 2010, Lexington KY : 18th place in the individual ranking with Woodburn and 4th place with the US team
    • 2014, Haras du Pin / Caen : abandoned with Trading Aces in the individual ranking, 10th place with the US team
  • Asia-Pacific Championships:
    • 2003, Blenheim : 1st place in the individual ranking with Nova Top and 1st place with the Australian team

Web links

Commons : Phillip Dutton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Phillip Dutton on the website of the United States Equestrian Federation Network
  2. ↑ Biography and important successes on the FEI website
personal data
SURNAME Dutton, Phillip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dutton, Phillip Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyngan , New South Wales