Christiaan Tonnet (23 February 1902 – 14 November 1946) was a Dutch

equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or riding in British English) Examples of this are: *Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...

and modern pentathlete. He competed in the pentathlon at the

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

and

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

and in the equestrian events at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

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* 1902 births 1946 deaths Dutch male equestrians Dutch male modern pentathletes Olympic equestrians for the Netherlands Olympic modern pentathletes for the Netherlands Modern pentathletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 1928 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 1936 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from The Hague 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub