Harry Boldt

Harry Boldt is a German dressage rider and Olympic champion, born on 23 February 1930 in Insterburg in East Prussia, now Chernyakhovsk. He won team gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and again at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and took individual silver in both Games, with Remus in 1964 and Woycek in 1976. He also won silver at the 1978 World Championships, five European team golds between 1965 and 1979 and several West German national titles. He wrote the textbook Das Dressurpferd in 1978, which became one of the most respected books on dressage riding. From 1981 to 1996 he was chief coach of the German dressage team and later moved to Australia, where he coached the national three-day event riders.