Robert Dover

Robert Dover is an American dressage rider, born in Chicago on 7 June 1956. He began riding at thirteen, specialised in dressage at nineteen and competed at his first Olympics in 1984. He rode at every Summer Games from 1984 to 2004 and won four team bronze medals, and he also took a team bronze at the 1994 World Equestrian Games. He is regarded as the most honoured dressage rider in the United States and has been inducted into the United States Dressage Federation Hall of Fame. In 1996 he founded the Equestrian Aid Foundation, and he later hosted a television show that searched for the next dressage star. He served as technical adviser to the Canadian dressage team from 2009 to 2011 and as technical adviser and chef d'equipe of the American team from 2013. He came out in 1988 and is described as the first openly gay Olympic athlete.