Raimondo D'Inzeo

Raimondo D'Inzeo (8 February 1925 to 15 November 2013) was an Italian show jumping rider and an officer in the Carabinieri Cavalry Regiment, who wore his uniform whenever he competed. He won the individual show jumping gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics on Posillipo, after an individual silver in 1956 on Merano, and added team bronze medals in 1960, 1964 and 1972. Together with his elder brother Piero he was among the first athletes to compete at eight consecutive Olympic Games, from 1948 to 1976. He was also double world champion, winning in 1956 on Merano and in 1960 on Gowran Girl, and he won Grand Prix events in Rome, Dublin and Amsterdam. Compared with the more technical Piero, he was known for an irritable and aggressive temperament.