Andreas Dibowski

Andreas Dibowski is a German eventing rider, born in Hamburg on 29 March 1966, who won the team eventing gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with his horse Butts Leon. He began at fifteen as a trainee groom at the National Riding School in Hoya, spent two years in a California show jumping yard and became German national champion in 1989 with Just Be Fair. He was selected for the German team at the Sydney Olympics of 2000 with Andora, where the team placed fourth, and then for Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. He has won three four star events, Pau in 2010 on FRH Fantasia, Luhmuhlen in 2011 on Butts Leon and Luhmuhlen in 2016 on It's Me, and he is based at Dohle near Hamburg, where he runs his own training yard.