Henri Chammartin

Henri Cham Martin ( born July 30, 1918 in Chavannes -sous- Orsonnens, † 30 May, 2011 Bern ) was a Swiss dressage riders.

Career

Chammartin was born in 1918 as the son of an agriculturally active family in Chavannes -sous- Orsonnens in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. He graduated from the Field Artillery recruit school, then he went to the government hospital Thun. Here he worked as a maker aspirant. Subsequently, from 1949 until his retirement, Henri Cham Martin worked as a heater in the Federal Military Horse Institute ( Recipient ) in Bern.

In this time Cham Martins fall big sporting successes. Between 1952 and 1968 he won five Olympic medals (two silver and two bronze in the team ) and five times European champion. The greatest success of his career reached Henri Chammartin at the Olympic Games in 1964, when he won the Olympic gold medal on his legendary horse Woermann.

A year earlier he won at the first European Championships Dressage with Wolf Dietrich Woermann and the gold and bronze medal. Two years later he won with Wolf Dietrich again singles gold at the European Championships in 1965. Considered a result of this success as one of the most successful dressage rider. His international athletic career as a dressage rider, he finished in 1968 after the Olympic Games in Mexico. There he had won with the Swiss team once again team bronze.

After his retirement, he moved with his wife in a farmhouse where he held small animals and occasionally even gave riding lessons. In 2002 he moved back to Bern. From 2009 he lived in a retirement home, where he died on May 30, 2011.