Sam Griffiths is an Australian

Eventing Eventing (also known as three-day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where the same horse and rider combination compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...

rider from Pearcedale in Victoria. 2017 saw him as the Ambassador to the Mitsubishi Motors Adelaide International Horse Trials. 4th individually at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and part of the Bronze medal winning team. He won the 2014 Mitsubishi Motors

Badminton Horse Trials The Badminton Horse Trials is a five-day event, one of only seven annual Concours Complet International (CCI) Five Star events as classified by the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI). It takes place in May each year in the park of ...

riding Paulank Brockagh who he later went on to ride in the

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. Winner of the 2014 Event Rider of the Year L'Année Hippique Awards. At the

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he competed in the

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and Team eventing, but fell during the cross-country event and did not finish. He was originally selected as the second reserve rider, but entered the team when two other Australian horses were unable to compete. Now based in the UK competing himself and training other riders.

CCI5* Results

Notable Horses

* Private Colin- 1994 Bay Gelding ** 2003 Asian Pacific Championships - Team Gold Medal, Individual Silver Medal * In The Groove - 1989 Bay Irish Sport Horse Gelding ** 2003 FEI World Cup Final - 19th Place * Noble Opposition - 1997 Bay Gelding ** 2004 FEI Eventing Young Horse World Championships - 17th Place * Motion Bound - 2001 Brown Gelding (Farrington Spondulicks x Horace) ** 2008 FEI Eventing Young Horse World Championships - 16th Place * Happy Times - 1999 Bay Oldenburg Gelding (Heraldik XX x Maraschino) ** 2012 London Olympic Games - Team Sixth Place * Paulank Brockagh - 2003 Bay Irish Sport Horse Mare (Touchdown x Trigerrero) ** 2014 Badminton CCI**** Winner ** 2014 World Equestrian Games - Team Fourth Place, Individual 16th Place ** 2016 Rio Olympics - Team Bronze Medal, Individual Fourth Place

References

External links

London 2012 profileAustralian Olympic team profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffiths, Sam Australian male equestrians 1972 births Living people Olympic equestrians for Australia Equestrians at the 2012 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Olympic medalists in equestrian Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportsmen from Victoria (state) People from Mornington Peninsula Equestrians from Melbourne