McLain Ward

McLain Ward is an American show jumping rider and five-time Olympic medalist, born on October 17, 1975. He won team jumping gold for the United States at the 2004 Athens Olympics, riding alongside Peter Wylde, Beezie Madden and Chris Kappler, and won team gold again at the 2008 Games on the mare Sapphire with Laura Kraut, Beezie Madden and Will Simpson. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio he took team jumping silver on HH Azur. Raised in Brewster, New York, by parents who worked in the horse industry, he became at age 14 the youngest rider to win the Show Jumping Derby and the USET Medal Finals in the same year, and in 1999 the youngest rider to pass one million dollars in grand prix prize money. He won the 2017 FEI World Cup Final and reached number one in the world rankings in April 2017.