Matthias Baumann

Matthias Baumann is a German three-day event rider, born on 5 April 1963 in Munich. He rode Shamrock II to team gold with West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he also finished sixth individually, and won team bronze with the reunified German team at the 1992 Barcelona Games on Alabaster. He was named as a substitute in 1996 but did not start. At home he won three German eventing titles in a row from 1990 to 1992, the first German to achieve that hat-trick. By profession he was a veterinary surgeon who ran a training and rehabilitation centre for sport horses at Reichertsheim, and he was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany's highest sports award.