Peter Lichtner-Hoyer

Peter Lichtner-Hoyer was an Austrian sportsman and colonel, born on 28 December 1925 in Graz and died on 23 November 2020. He was so badly wounded in the Second World War that doctors thought he would never walk again, yet he trained as a rider and became one of Austria's best international horsemen. He took part in more than 1,500 competitions as an equestrian and a pentathlete and in 24 world and European championships. He rode show jumping at the 1956 Stockholm equestrian Olympics on Rienzi, who did not finish, and competed in modern pentathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics, placing 25th individually and 12th with the Austrian team. He later wrote books on cavalletti training and ran a stud farm, and Austria honoured him in 2001 with its Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic.