Alwin Schockemöhle

Alwin Schockemöhle is a German show jumper, born in Osterbrock on 29 May 1937, who won four Olympic medals. He took team gold with the combined German team in 1960, team bronze in 1968, and in 1976 the individual gold and a team silver for West Germany. His 1976 individual victory in Montreal on Warwick Rex, run in storm and rain, became one of the best known rides in the sport. At the European Championships he collected one gold, two silver and three bronze medals. After retiring as team boss of the German jumpers in 1980 he turned to harness racing, like his brother Paul became a major horse breeder, and was inducted into the German Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.