Gustav Fischer

Gustav Fischer was a Swiss dressage rider, born in Meisterschwanden on 8 November 1915 and died on 22 November 1990. He competed at five Summer Olympics and won five medals: team medals in 1952, 1956, 1964 and 1968, and an individual medal in 1960, when no team dressage event was held. He made his Olympic debut in Helsinki in 1952 at the age of 36, finishing eighth in the individual event and winning team silver with Gottfried Trachsel and Henri Chammartin. At Stockholm in 1956 the same three riders took team bronze. In 1968 he and Chammartin jointly became the second Swiss sportspeople, after the middle distance runner Paul Martin, to compete at five Olympic Games. Olympedia lists his medals as three silver and two bronze.