František Ventura (13 August 1894 in
Cerekvice nad Loučnou – 1 December 1969 in
Prague
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) was a
Czech
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equestrian
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who competed in the
1928 Summer Olympics
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.
In 1928, he and his horse Eliot won the gold medal in the individual jumping competition. The Czechoslovak jumping team did not finish the
team jumping competition, because one of their riders was disqualified in the individual competition.
References
External links
František Ventura at databaseOlympics.com
1894 births
1969 deaths
Sportspeople from Vysoké Mýto
20th-century Czech people
Czechoslovak male equestrians
Czech male equestrians
Show jumping riders
Olympic equestrians for Czechoslovakia
Equestrians at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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