Steve Guerdat

Steve Guerdat (born 10 June 1982) is a Swiss equestrian who competes in show jumping. He is the 2012 Olympic champion in individual jumping, riding the Selle Français Nino des Buissonnets, and the first Swiss rider to win the Olympic jumping gold since Alphonse Gemuseus in 1924. He also took team bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Jalisca Solier and silver in the individual event in 2024. The article describes him as the only show jumping athlete to have won individual gold at the Olympic Games, the World Equestrian Games, the European Championships and the World Cup, the latter in 2015, 2016 and 2019. He began riding at seven, was trained by his father Philippe Guerdat, an Olympic show jumper, and now lives in his own stables near Zurich.