Andrew Nicholson

Andrew Nicholson is a New Zealand three-day event rider, born in Te Awamutu in the Waikato on 1 August 1961, who has competed at six Olympic Games and was selected for a seventh. He moved to England in the 1980s to build his career and works there as a horse trainer. He won team gold at the 1990 World Equestrian Games in Stockholm, team silver at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and team bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. At Barcelona he kept the New Zealand team intact by riding on after a poor round on Spinning Rhombus, a decision that secured silver behind Australia. He has won the Burghley Horse Trials five times, most recently on Avebury in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and won Badminton in 2017 with Nereo. He was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 and was an inaugural inductee of the Equestrian Sports New Zealand Hall of Fame in 2019.