Karen O'Connor

Karen O'Connor is an American three day eventer, born in The Plains, Virginia, on 17 February 1958. She rode at five Olympic Games, in 1988 as Karen Lende and then as O'Connor after marrying the American team member David O'Connor, in 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2012. She won a team silver in eventing in 1996 and a team bronze in 2000, gold medals in both the individual and team eventing at the 2007 Pan American Games, and a team bronze at the 1998 World Championships. She suffered a burst fracture of a vertebra in a fall in October 2012 and retired from competition in 2013. She and her husband run O'Connor Equestrian in The Plains and in Ocala, Florida, and she has served on the board of the United States Equestrian Federation.