# Francis Weldon > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Francis_Weldon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Francis_Weldon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Weldon > Source revision: 1312655721 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British equestrian (1913–1993) Francis Weldon Medal record Equestrian Representing Great Britain Olympic Games 1956 Stockholm Team eventing 1956 Stockholm Individual eventing European Championships 1953 Badminton Team eventing 1954 Basel Team eventing 1955 Windsor Individual eventing 1955 Windsor Team eventing 1953 Badminton Individual eventing 1954 Basel Individual eventing 1959 Harewood Individual eventing 1959 Harewood Team eventing 1962 Burghley Team eventing **Francis William Weldon** [MVO](/source/Royal_Victorian_Order) [MBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) [MC](/source/Military_Cross) (2 August 1913 – 21 September 1993) was a British [equestrian](/source/Equestrianism) and Olympic champion. He won a team gold medal in *eventing* at the [1956 Summer Olympics](/source/1956_Summer_Olympics) in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm), and received an individual bronze medal.[1] He became European champion in 1953, 1954 and 1955. Weldon was a [lieutenant colonel](/source/Lieutenant_colonel) in the [British Army](/source/British_Army) and was Officer Commanding, the King's Troop, [Royal Horse Artillery](/source/Royal_Horse_Artillery). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-sports-ref_1-0)** ["Frank Weldon"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120131043622/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/frank-weldon-1.html). *SR/Olympic Sports*. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/frank-weldon-1.html) on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2008. ## External links - [Francis Weldon](https://www.teamgb.com/athletes/30Pq7Ry3XxVwvKC8NSmbqh) at [Team GB](/source/Team_GB) - [Francis Weldon](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/12994) at [Olympedia](/source/Olympedia) v t e Olympic equestrian champions in team eventing 1912: Nordlander, Adlercreutz, Casparsson, Åminne (SWE) 1920: Mörner, Lundström, von Braun, Dyrsch (SWE) 1924: van der Voort van Zijp, de Mortanges, de Kruijff, Colenbrander (NED) 1928: de Mortanges, de Kruijff, van der Voort van Zijp (NED) 1932: Thomson, Chamberlin, Argo (USA) 1936: Stubbendorf, Lippert, von Wangenheim (GER) 1948: Henry, Anderson, Thomson (USA) 1952: von Blixen-Finecke, Stahre, Frölén (SWE) 1956: Weldon, Rook, Hill (GBR) 1960: Morgan, Lavis, Roycroft (AUS) 1964: Checcoli, Angioni, Ravano (ITA) 1968: Allhusen, Meade, Jones (GBR) 1972: Meade, Gordon-Watson, Parker, Phillips (GBR) 1976: Coffin, Plumb, Davidson, Tauskey (USA) 1980: Blinov, Salnikov, Volkov, Rogozhin (URS) 1984: Plumb, Stives, Fleischmann, Davidson (USA) 1988: Erhorn, Baumann, Kaspareit, Ehrenbrink (FRG) 1992: Green, Rolton, Hoy, Ryan (AUS) 1996: Schaeffer, Rolton, Hoy, Dutton (AUS) 2000: Dutton, Hoy, Tinney, Ryan (AUS) 2004: Boiteau, Lyard, Courrèges, Teulère, Touzaint (FRA) 2008: Thomsen, Ostholt, Dibowski, Klimke, Romeike (GER) 2012: Auffarth, Jung, Klimke, Schrade, Thomsen (GER) 2016: Laghouag, Lemoine, Nicolas, Vallette (FRA) 2020: Collett, McEwen, Townend (GBR) 2024: Canter, McEwen, Collett (GBR) v t e European equestrian champions in individual eventing 1953: Laurence Rook (GBR) 1954: Bertie Hill (GBR) 1955: Frank Weldon (GBR) 1957: Sheila Willcox (GBR) 1959: Hans Schwarzenbach (SUI) 1962: James Templer (GBR) 1965: Marian Babirecki (POL) 1967: Eddie Boylan (IRL) 1969: Mary Gordon-Watson (GBR) 1971: The Princess Anne (GBR) 1973: Aleksandr Yevdokimov (URS) 1975: Lucinda Prior-Palmer (GBR) 1977: Lucinda Prior-Palmer (GBR) 1979: Nils Haagensen (DEN) 1981: Hansueli Schmutz (SUI) 1983: Rachel Bayliss (GBR) 1985: Virginia Holgate (GBR) 1987: Virginia Leng (GBR) 1989: Virginia Leng (GBR) 1991: Ian Stark (GBR) 1993: Jean-Lou Bigot (FRA) 1995: Lucy Thompson (IRL) 1997: Bettina Hoy (GER) 1999: Pippa Funnell (GBR) 2001: Pippa Funnell (GBR) 2003: Nicolas Touzaint (FRA) 2005: Zara Phillips (GBR) 2007: Nicolas Touzaint (FRA) 2009: Kristina Cook (GBR) 2011: Michael Jung (GER) 2013: Michael Jung (GER) 2015: Michael Jung (GER) 2017: Ingrid Klimke (GER) 2019: Ingrid Klimke (GER) 2021: Nicola Wilson (GBR) 2023: Ros Canter (GBR) 2025: Laura Collett (GBR) v t e European equestrian champions in team eventing 1953: Great Britain: (Weldon, Hindley, Hill) 1954: Great Britain: (Hill, Weldon, Rook, Mason) 1955: Great Britain: (Weldon, Hill, Rook, Mason) 1957: Great Britain: (Willcox, Marsh, Allhusen, Tatham-Warter) 1959: West Germany: (Lütke-Westhüs, Pohlmann, Dehning, Klimke) 1962: Soviet Union: (Gazyumov, Deyev, Baklyshkin, Mursalimov) 1965: Soviet Union: (Gorelkin, Mursalimov, Yevdokimov, Baklyshkin) 1967: Great Britain: (Whitely, Allhusen, Jones, Meade) 1969: Great Britain: (Walker, Allhusen, Hely-Hutchinson, Jones) 1971: Great Britain: (West, Meade, Gordon-Watson, Phillips) 1973: West Germany: (Blöcker, Mergler, Karsten, Klugmann) 1975: Soviet Union: (Gornushko, Kalinin, Lanyugin, Tishkin) 1977: Great Britain: (Prior-Palmer, Holderness-Roddam, Collins, Strachan) 1979: Ireland: (Watson, Foster, Lillingston, Cantillon) 1981: Great Britain: (Purbrick, Benson, Meade, Holgate) 1983: Sweden: (Persson, Breisner, Ingvarsson, Ullsten) 1985: Great Britain: (Holgate, Clarke, Stark, Green) 1987: Great Britain: (Leng, Stark, Hunt, Green) 1989: Great Britain: (Powell, Stark, Leng, Clarke-Sutherland) 1991: Great Britain: (Stark, Walker, Straker, Thomson) 1993: Sweden: (Christensson, Bergendorff, Duvander, Hermann) 1995: Great Britain: (Bathe, Gifford, Fox-Pitt, King) 1997: Great Britain: (Bartle, Stark, King, Fox-Pitt) 1999: Great Britain: (Gifford, Brakewell, Stark, Funnell) 2001: Great Britain: (Law, Brakewell, Fox-Pitt, Funnell) 2003: Great Britain: (Brakewell, Fox-Pitt, Law, Funnell) 2005: Great Britain: (Phillips, Fox-Pitt, Brakewell, Law) 2007: Great Britain: (Townend, Dick, Phillips, King) 2009: Great Britain: (Cook, Fox-Pitt, Wilson, Townend) 2011: Germany: (Jung, Auffarth, Klimke, Dibowski) 2013: Germany: (Jung, Klimke, Schrade, Dibowski) 2015: Germany: (Jung, Auffarth, Klimke, Schrade) 2017: Great Britain: (Cook, Wilson, Canter, Townend) 2019: Germany: (Klimke, Jung, Dibowski, Rüder) 2021: Great Britain: (Wilson, March, King, Canter) 2023: Great Britain: (Collett, Ingham, King, Canter) 2025: Germany: (Lübbeke, Hansen-Hotopp, Robiné, Jung) Authority control databases VIAF GND This article about a United Kingdom Olympic medallist is a stub. 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