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František Ventura (13 August 1894 in Cerekvice nad Loučnou – 1 December 1969 in
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) was a
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who competed in the
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 ...
. 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.


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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 {{Czechoslovakia-Olympic-medalist-stub