{{short description|British showjumper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox equestrian | name = Geoff Billington | image = | caption = | imagesize = 200px | fullname = Geoff Billington | nationality = {{GBR}} | discipline = Show jumping | birth_date = | birth_place = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Equestrian}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1998 Rome|Jumping Team}} {{MedalSport | European Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1997 Mannheim|Jumping Team}} }}
'''Geoff Billington''' is a British showjumper who has represented Great Britain on a number of occasions including during the European and World Championships and at the Olympics.<ref name=hctv>{{cite news |publisher=Horse and Country TV |title=Biography: Geoff Billington |url=http://www.horseandcountry.tv/celebrity/geoff-billington |accessdate=17 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618170557/http://www.horseandcountry.tv/celebrity/geoff-billington |archivedate=18 June 2009 }}</ref><ref name=bsja>{{cite web |publisher=British Showjumping Association |title=Geoff Billington |url=http://www.britishshowjumping.co.uk/_files/_riderbiogs/BillingtonG4.pdf |accessdate=17 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202064934/http://www.britishshowjumping.co.uk/_files/_riderbiogs/BillingtonG4.pdf |archivedate=2 February 2010 }}</ref> As of Jan 2010, Geoff was ranked 13th on the Team GBR list.<ref name=bsja/>
==Early life== Geoff Billington was born on 2 March 1955,<ref name=bsja/> and started riding at the age of nine years at a local riding school.<ref name=hctv/> He went to serve an apprenticeship with showjumper David Bowen.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Horse and Hound |title=Geoff Billington, British show jumper |last=Butler |first=Lottie |url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/397/288221.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105144943/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/397/288221.html |archivedate=5 November 2009 }}</ref>
==Career achievements== Geoff Billington has competed once in 1998 at the World Championships, achieving a team bronze medal, and also has a European championship team bronze medal from 1997, although he also competed there in 1999 and 2009.
He has represented Great Britain at the Olympics in both Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and has competed in 46 Nations Cups since 1976, with a total of 9 wins.
Billington has also won the British Jumping Derby at Hickstead in 2007, on the grey horse Cassabachus,<ref name=bsja/><ref>{{cite news|publisher=BBC News|title=Billington triumphs at Hickstead|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/equestrian/6259712.stm|date=1 July 2007}}</ref> narrowly missing out on the same title a year later to William Funnell.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=BBC News|title=Funnell wins Hickstead jump-off|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/equestrian/7480290.stm|date=29 June 2008}}</ref>
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