Xavier Lesage

Xavier Lesage
Lesage on Taine , April 1933
nation	France
birthday	October 25, 1885
place of birth	Saumur
date of death	3rd August 1968
Place of death	Gisors
Career
discipline	Dressage riding
Horses	Plumarol (1924) Taine (1932) Fou-du-Prince (1934)
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze 1924 Paris Dressage riding with plumarol gold 1932 Los Angeles Individual dressage with Taine gold 1932 Los Angeles Dressage team with Taine

François Xavier Edmund Marie Lesage (born October 25, 1885 in Saumur , † August 3, 1968 in Gisors ) was a French sport rider .

Lesage, who served in the French army and had learned to ride there, held the rank of commander . As a volunteer, Lesage was a member of the 29th Dragoons from 1904 . From 1923 on he served at the Saumur Cavalry School and headed the Cadre Noir as Écuyers en chef from 1935 to 1941.

He took part in equestrian competitions from the beginning of the 1920s and first represented the Republic of France at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris . Here Lesage won the bronze medal in dressage riding . In 1928 Lesage and Amalgale were reserve riders in the French dressage team at the Olympic Games.

In 1932 at the Games in Los Angeles he appeared both in the team in the fight for the Prize of Nations and in the individual competition in the discipline of dressage . His two teammates in 1932 were André Jousseaume and Charles Marion. Xavier Lesage achieved a double triumph: he was Olympic champion on the horse Taine both in the individual and with the team .

Lesage won the Grand Prix de Dressage in Paris in 1928 and 1932, and in the Grand Prix de Dressage of Vienna he came second with Fou-du-Prince in 1934. In 1931 Xavier Lesage was victorious with Taine in the FEI championship in Vichy and came second in Pardubitz.

Web links

• Xavier Lesage in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Olympic ride from Lesage and Taine 1932 (video, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jasper Nissen: Large equestrian and horse dictionary . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-570-04580-3 , p. 260 .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Max E. Ammann: History of equestrian sport: jumping, military, dressage, driving . Special edition, Prisma-Verlag, Gütersloh 1983, ISBN 3-570-09074-4 , p. 83 and 89 .
3. ^ Official report of the 1932 Olympic Games, published by the IOC, 1933.
4. ^ Within the National Olympic Committees. (pdf; 43 kB) France. In: LA 84 Foundation. Legacy of The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, August 1968, p. 1 , accessed December 16, 2012 .