Mark Todd (equestrian)

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Sir Mark Todd KNZM CBE
Todd on Gandalf at the 2008 Barbury International Horse Trials
Personal information
Full name	Mark James Todd
Discipline	Eventing
Born	(1956-03-01) 1 March 1956 (age 68) Cambridge, New Zealand
Medal record Equestrian Representing  New Zealand Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 – 3 World Championships 2 1 1 Total 4 1 4 Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Individual eventing 1988 Seoul Individual eventing 1988 Seoul Team eventing 2000 Sydney Individual eventing 2012 London Team eventing World Championships 1990 Stockholm Team eventing 1998 Rome Team eventing 1998 Rome Individual eventing 2010 Lexington Team eventing

Sir Mark James Todd KNZM CBE (born 1 March 1956) is a New Zealand horseman noted for his accomplishments in the discipline of eventing, voted Rider of the 20th century by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.^[1]

He won gold medals at Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988) Olympics, the Badminton Horse Trials on four occasions,^[2] the Burghley Horse Trials five times,^[3] and as a member of New Zealand's Eventing team, he won gold medals at the World Championships in 1990 and 1998 (Rome), plus 20 or more other international events, and numerous other international individual and team titles.

In 1988, he was announced as the New Zealand Sportsperson of the year and winner of the Supreme Halberg Award.^[4] In the same year, he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.^[5]

On 25 April 2011, Todd completed a fourth Badminton victory riding NZB Land Vision, becoming the oldest winner of the event.^[2]

By winning his fifth Olympic medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Todd equalled the Olympic record established by Hungarian fencer Aladár Gerevich for the longest gap between first and last Olympic medals — 28 years^[6] — and shares the record for second-most Olympic medals won by a New Zealander with canoeists Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald.^[7] The 2016 Games were Todd's seventh, having previously competed in 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2008 and 2012. Todd is the first New Zealander to have competed at seven Olympic Games.

In February of 2022, a video emerged of Todd repeatedly hitting a horse with a branch for refusing to enter a water obstacle at a training clinic.^[8]