Equestrian News - Mark Todd
NZ's double gold winner, Mark Todd, back for Beijing
DOUBLE equestrian gold medallist Mark Todd has made a successful return from an eight-year retirement to win selection for New Zealand's Olympic eventing team. The winner of individual gold medals at Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988 was named today in the five-strong team by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) to compete at this summer's Beijing Games. Mark Todd, 52, will be attending his sixth Games after coming out of retirement ea
Mark Todd earns right to ride in Beijing Olympics
Former Olympic champion Mark Todd, returning from eight years' retirement, earned the right to represent New Zealand at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday when he placed sixth at a three-day equestrian event in Saumur, France.
Todd, riding Gandalf, has now claimed the two qualifying performances required to ride at the Games in August. New Zealand will name its five-strong team next month.
Mark Todd, 52, was 25th after the dressage and
Mark Todd included in Olympic squad
Mark Todd was named in New Zealand's Olympic squad yesterday, thus putting an end to speculation that the world's most celebrated three-day event rider might be omitted from the Games in Sydney because of allegations in a Sunday newspaper.
Mark Todd was named in New Zealand's Olympic squad yesterday, thus putting an end to speculation that the world's most celebrated three-day event rider might be omitted from the Games in Sydney because o
Olympics: Mark Todd would protest over Tibet
Equestrian Mark Todd says he will consider joining any peaceful protest against China's actions in Tibet if he is selected for the Beijing Olympics. The double Olympic gold medallist, who has come out of retirement to try to qualify for Beijing, said it would be better to attend the Games and "voice your opinion" there than boycott them.
Demonstrators protesting against Chinese rule in Tibet have been shot during a week of escalating v
New Zealands double gold winner, Mark Todd, back for Beijing
DOUBLE equestrian gold medallist Mark Todd has made a successful return from an eight-year retirement to win selection for New Zealand's Olympic eventing team. The winner of individual gold medals at Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988 was named today in the five-strong team by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) to compete at this summer's Beijing Games.
Mark Todd, 52, will be attending his sixth Games after coming out of retir
Mark Todd leads way and turns back time
IN a sense, Mark Todd still has charisma even when first in the firing line. Bathed in sweat and sporting a white knitted tie, New Zealand's equestrian legend still succeeded in looking the part when he made a grand entrance to the Olympic eventing arena, shortly after dawn amid the cloying heat at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.
Venturing into the dressage ring at 6.30am, the double Olympic gold medalist then took a shade over five minutes to r
Mark Todd Reurns To Badminton
New Zealand eventing hero Mark Todd now back in England to further his revived eventing career called in at The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. Eight years after his last competitive ride in Europe, Mark is back, with his horse Gandalf, to try and complete qualification to enable him to compete at this year’s Olympic Games in Bejiing (Hong Kong).
The 51-year-old who won here on three occasions – 1980 (Southern Comfort), 1994
Medal-free equestrians get the message from Mark Todd
New Zealand eventers will have to improve their dressage to avoid a repeat of this week's medal-free OLympic competition, says equestrian team manager Mark Todd. New Zealand did not recover from poor dressage scores and finished a distant fifth in the Olympic Games three-day team event.
Horse Breeding
It was the end of a run of five successive Games at which the eventers won at least one medal. Olympic rookie Heelan Tompkins was the most successful N
Mark Todd heads to Kentucky
Last weekend's Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials winner, Mark Todd, along with fellow competitors including William Fox-Pitt, Oliver Townend and Mary King, this week again compete at the very top level against one another. This time, the riders have left British turf to compete at America's only CCI4* level competition, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event in Lexington.
The riders all flew out to join their horses (who were transp
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