Graziano Mancinelli

Graziano Mancinelli was an Italian show jumping rider, born on 18 February 1937 and died on 8 October 1992. He competed at the Olympics of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1984 and won one gold and two bronze medals. Before the 1964 Games he was banned because he was considered a professional, having ridden for the Milan horse dealing company Fratelli Rivolta, but the ban was lifted the day before the Olympics began. Outside the Games he won a silver medal at the 1970 World Championships, a European title in 1963 and six national titles. In 2015 a tile in his name was placed in the Walk of Fame of Italian sport, a line of one hundred tiles in the Olympic Park of the Foro Italico in Rome that honours the most representative athletes in Italian sporting history.