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Friedrich Wilhelm Gerhard (24 July 1884 in
Trakehnen Yasnaya Polyana (; , from 1929 ''Groß Trakehnen''; ; ) is a rural settlement (''posyolok'') in the Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast, north of the Romincka Forest. Nearby Diwnoje ...
– 16 May 1950) was a German
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 Olympic champion. He won two Olympic medals 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 ...
in Berlin.


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1884 births 1950 deaths People from Nesterovsky District Sportspeople from East Prussia German dressage riders Olympic equestrians for Germany German male equestrians Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Equestrians at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in equestrian Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-equestrian-bio-stub