Charles Pahud de Mortanges

Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges, born on 13 May 1896 in The Hague, was a Dutch horse rider who competed at the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics and carried the flag of the Netherlands in 1932. He is one of three equestrians, with Mark Todd and Michael Jung, to win two consecutive Olympic titles in the individual three-day event. In 1924 he won gold in the team three-day event, in 1928 gold in both the team and the individual events, and in 1932 gold in the individual event with silver in the team event. A career army officer who graduated from the Royal Military Academy in 1918, he later commanded the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade in 1944 and 1945, served as president or vice president of the National Olympic Committee from 1946 to 1961 and sat on the International Olympic Committee from 1946 to 1964. He died in Leiden on 8 April 1971.