William Steinkraus. Take a look back at Bill Steinkraus' historic win of the Individual Gold Medal in the Mexico City Olympics in this especially prepared video narrated by Bernie Traurig. These were the biggest jumps ever built at any Olympic Games! Following this video, watch several short excerpts from a larger collection ...
William Steinkraus - Wikipedia
William Clark "Bill" Steinkraus (October 12, 1925 – November 29, 2017) was an American show jumping champion. Steinkraus participated in five Olympic Games. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in Mexico City, he won a gold medal in individual jumping with the horse, Snowbound. He obtained two silver medals in ...
William Steinkraus — Wikipédia
William Clark Steinkraus (né le 12 octobre 1925 et mort le 29 novembre 2017) est un cavalier de saut d'obstacles américain. Il est surnommé Bill Steinkraus. Sommaire. [masquer]. 1 Biographie; 2 Palmarès mondial; 3 Livre; 4 Références. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code]. Pendant plus de 20 ans, jusqu'en 1972, il a ...
William Steinkraus - Washington International Horse Show
William C. Steinkraus (72), a resident of Norton, Connecticut, is a six-time Olympian who in 1968 became the first American ever to win an Olympic individual gold medal in equestrian sport when he won the show-jumping title in Mexico City. A graduate of Yale College, where his education was interrupted by a stint in ...
William Steinkraus 1925 – 2017 | The Horse Magazine
7 Dec 2017 ... Bill Steinkraus was many things, rider, thinker, poet, musician, writer, but for the equestrian world his most enduring legacy was proof that effective riding was good riding, classical, civilised riding. Jumping, he told me the first time we met, back in the early 80's, is how you ride the track, the jumps themselves ...
Farewell To William C. Steinkraus - The Chronicle of the Horse
6 Dec 2017 ... William C. “Bill” Steinkraus, the first U.S. show jumper to win an individual Olympic gold medal, died on Nov. 29 at the age of 92. Steinkraus is considered by many to be one of the best riders in the sport's history. In addition to his individual gold riding Snowbound at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, ...
Bill Steinkraus, Equestrian Who Made Olympic History, Dies at 92 ...
7 Dec 2017 ... William Clark Steinkraus was born on Oct. 12, 1925, in Cleveland and grew up in Westport, Conn. He started riding at 9 in a summer camp in Canada and rode in his first National Horse Show at 12, in a junior class. A student of the renowned trainers Gordon Wright and Morton W. Smith, he went on to win ...
