Rolf-Göran Bengtsson

Rolf-Göran Bengtsson is a Swedish show jumper, born in Lund on 2 June 1962. He won the individual silver medal in show jumping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a team silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games, and he has competed at many further Olympics. In 2011 he received the Jerring Award. From 1997 to 2003 he worked at Jan Tops' stable in Valkenswaard in the Netherlands, and since 2003 he has lived at Breitenburg in northern Germany, where he runs his own stable together with Bo Kristoffersen. The Mexican billionaire Alfonso Romo has been a major financier of his career in international show jumping, which has kept him among the leading Swedish riders of his generation across more than two decades of Games and championships.