Guenter Seidel
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Born | 23 September 1960 Fischen im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany | (age 61)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Guenter Seidel (born 23 September 1960) is an American equestrian. He was born in Bavaria, Germany. He won a bronze medal in team dressage at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, together with Robert Dover, Michelle Gibson and Steffen Peters. He also won bronze medals in team dressage at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] He is openly gay.[2]
Notable Horses[]
- Graf George – 1982 Gray Gelding
- 1996 Atlanta Olympics – Team Bronze Medal, Individual Eighth Place
- 1997 FEI World Cup Final – Eighth Place
- 1998 World Equestrian Games – Team Fourth Place, Individual Eighth Place
- Foltaire – 1987 Bay Dutch Warmblood Gelding (Voltaire x Afrikaner)
- 2000 Sydney Olympics – Team Bronze Medal
- Nikolas 7 – 1989 Bay Westfalen Gelding (Weinberg x Exponent)
- 2002 World Equestrian Games – Individual 18th Place
- 2003 FEI World Cup Final – Bronze Medal
- 2004 FEI World Cup Final – Sixth Place
- Aragon – 1992 Gray Bavarian Gelding (Abydos x Lorenz)
- 2004 Athens Olympics – Team Bronze Medal, Individual 14th Place
- 2005 FEI World Cup Final – 12th Place
- 2006 World Equestrian Games – Team Bronze Medal, Individual 13th Place Grand Prix, Individual 13th Place Freestyle
- Zero Gravity – 2004 Chestnut Dutch Warmblood Gelding (Royal Hit x Contango)
- 2016 FEI World Cup Final – 18th Place
References[]
- ^ "Profile: Guenter Seidel". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ Andy Zeffer (9 July 2004) Trotting Down a Different Path:Gays play an important role in Wellington’s equestrian community. expressgaynews.com.
External links[]
- Guentër Seidel at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Gay sportsmen
- LGBT equestrians
- LGBT sportspeople from Germany
- LGBT sportspeople from the United States
- Living people
- Bavarian emigrants to the United States
- American male equestrians
- American dressage riders
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in equestrian
- Equestrians at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Equestrians at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Equestrians at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in equestrian
- People from Oberallgäu
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Equestrians at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in equestrian
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- American Olympic medalist stubs
- American equestrian biography stubs