William Fox-Pitt

William Fox-Pitt is an English eventing rider, born on 2 January 1969 in Hampstead and educated at Eton College. He has won three Olympic team medals, silver in 2004 and 2012 and bronze in 2008, and at the World Equestrian Games took team gold and individual silver in 2010 and team silver and individual bronze in 2014. He has won six European Championship team gold medals. He holds the record for wins at five-star events, with fourteen titles, and is the only rider to have won five of the six five-star events, including a record six wins at the Burghley Horse Trials. A serious fall in 2015 left him in a coma for two weeks, yet he returned to ride at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was appointed MBE in 2018.