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Definitive memoirs of 2016 Olympic Gold medallist and legendary British show jumper Nick Skelton.

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Gold by Nick Skelton

With a show-jumping career spanning over forty years, Nick Skelton is a legend in the equestrian world. No other rider has won so many major competitions on so many different horses and he is as popular at Olympia and Hickstead as he is at Aachen, Geneva, Paris and Spruce Meadows. Skelton has competed in eight Olympic Games. He was part of the gold medal-winning Great Britain team at London 2012 and made history by winning the individual Olympic gold medal at Rio 2016, riding at the age of fifty-eight his beloved horse Big Star. Nick Skelton began riding at the age of eighteen months on a Welsh pony called Oxo. At the age of seventeenth in 1975, Skelton took team silver and individual gold at the Junior European Championships. He has competed many times at the European Show Jumping Championships, winning numerous medals, both individually and with the British team. In 1980 he competed in the Alternative Olympics, where he helped the British team to a silver medal. He still holds the British Show Jumping High Jump record that he set in 1978. In 2000, Skelton was forced into an early retirement after he broke his neck from a serious fall. But following an amazing recovery he came out of retirement in 2002 to compete again. Now he tells the full story of his eventful life and matchless achievements.
One of Britain's greatest ever equestrians, Nick Skelton was born in Warwickshire in 1957. At his seventh Olympic Games in Rio, 2016, he won the individual gold medal, proving himself one of Britain's most durable sports stars. He was made CBE in the New Year's Honours List in 2017.
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ISBN 13 9781474607346
ISBN 10 1474607349
Title Gold
Author Nick Skelton
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2018-10-18
Number of pages 288
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