# Mary Gordon-Watson > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mary_Gordon-Watson > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mary_Gordon-Watson.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gordon-Watson > Source revision: 1312654772 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British equestrian (born 1948) Mary Gordon-Watson Medal record Equestrian Representing United Kingdom Olympic Games 1972 Munich Team eventing World Championships 1970 Punchestown Individual eventing 1970 Punchestown Team eventing European Championships 1969 Haras-du-Pin Individual eventing 1971 Burghley Team eventing **Mary Gordon-Watson** [MBE](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (born 3 April 1948) is a British [equestrian](/source/Equestrianism). She was born in [Blandford](/source/Blandford). She won a team gold medal in [eventing](/source/Eventing) at the [1972 Summer Olympics](/source/1972_Summer_Olympics) in [Munich](/source/Munich), and finished fourth in individual eventing.[1] She became European champion in 1969 in individual eventing, and in 1971 she was European champion in team eventing. In 1970 she became World champion in both individual and team eventing.[1] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-sports-ref_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-sports-ref_1-1) ["Mary Gordon-Watson"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041732/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/mary-gordon-watson-1.html). *SR/Olympic Sports*. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/mary-gordon-watson-1.html) on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2008. 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 International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Spain Netherlands Korea Poland Finland Catalonia Belgium People Trove DDB Other IdRef This article about a United Kingdom Olympic medallist is a stub. 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