Nicolas Touzaint

Nicolas Touzaint is a French three-day event rider, born in Angers on 10 May 1980 into a family already known in the sport: his father Jean-Yves was French eventing champion in 1975 and 1976, and his uncle Thierry is a national coach. He won the team gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where he also placed ninth individually on Galan de Sauvagere. On 4 May 2008 he became the first Frenchman to win the Badminton Horse Trials. Earlier he was European champion at Punchestown in 2003 and again at Pratoni del Vivaro in 2007, won the eventing World Cup final in Malmo in 2006, and took the Pau four-star event in 2007. After that season he stood third on the FEI world rankings. In 2024 he received a yellow card from the FEI for excessive use of whip, bit or spurs at the Marbach Horse Trials.