Nick Skelton

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Nick Skelton CBE
Personal information
Full name	Nicholas David Skelton
Nationality	British
Discipline	Show jumping
Born	(1957-12-30) 30 December 1957 (age 66) Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Equestrian Showjumping Olympic Games 2012 London Team Jumping 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual jumping Alternative Olympics 1980 Rotterdam Team jumping World Championships 1986 Aachen Team jumping 1982 Dublin Team jumping 1986 Aachen Individual jumping 1990 Stockholm Team jumping 1998 Rome Team Jumping European Championships 1985 Dinard Team jumping 1987 St Gallen Team jumping 1989 Rotterdam Team jumping 1991 La Baule Team jumping 1993 Gijon Team jumping 1995 St Gallen Team jumping 1987 St Gallen Individual jumping 2011 Madrid Team jumping 2011 Madrid Individual jumping Junior European Championships 1975 Dornbirn Individual jumping 1974 Lucerne Team jumping 1975 Dornbirn Team jumping

Nicholas David Skelton CBE (born 30 December 1957, Bedworth, Warwickshire) is a British former equestrian who competed in show jumping. He retired at the age of 59 years old, on 5 April 2017. He began riding at age 18 months and in 1975 took two team silvers and an individual gold at the Junior European Championships.

He has competed numerous times at the European Show Jumping Championships, winning three golds, three silvers and three bronzes both individually and with the British team over 26 years. In 1980, he competed in the Alternative Olympics, where he helped the British team to a silver medal. He currently holds the British show jumping high jump record, which he set in 1978.

His most notable successes occurred in back-to-back Olympic Games in the swansong of his career. In 2012, at the age of 54, Skelton won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Great Britain team. Four years later, he won the individual Olympic gold medal at his seventh Olympic Games.^[1] Having won both team and individual Olympic gold, Skelton and his horse, Big Star, retired together shortly after the 2016 Games.