William Steinkraus

William Clark Steinkraus was an American show jumping champion, born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 12 October 1925 and died on 29 November 2017. He took up riding at the age of ten at summer camp and rose to the top level of equitation competition by 1941. After Yale University and wartime service in the cavalry, he joined the United States Olympic team and took part in five Olympic Games. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City he won individual gold with the horse Snowbound, and he added two team silver medals, in 1960 and 1972, and a team bronze in 1952. After retiring from international competition in 1972 he served the United States Equestrian Team as president or chairman, worked as a television commentator and wrote several books on riding.