Jos Lansink

Jos Lansink is a show jumper born in Weerselo in the Netherlands on 19 March 1961, who rode for the Netherlands and later represented Belgium. He has competed at six Olympic Games, four for the Netherlands from Seoul in 1988 to Sydney in 2000 and two for Belgium in 2004 and 2008, and he took part again in 2012. The Dutch team won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Games. He began riding at the age of three, rose to prominence in 1988 on Felix, won the World Cup Final in 1994 on Libero and took team bronze at the 2002 World Championships on Caridor. In 2006, riding the stallion Cumano, he became world champion. He started his own stable in 2004, was runner up in the 2009 Global Champions Tour final and continues to compete on that tour for Belgium.