Edmund Coffin

Edmund Sloane Tad Coffin is an American equestrian and saddlemaker, born on 9 May 1955 in Toledo, Ohio. He won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, riding Bally Cor, and he was the first American to win the individual Olympic three day event title. Before the Games he had won the individual competition at the 1975 Pan American Games on the same horse. He grew up on Long Island, moved with his family to Strafford, Vermont, and later settled in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he runs a saddle making business. He is a nephew of the clergyman and peace activist William Sloane Coffin.