Bill Roycroft

Olympic medal record
Equestrian
Gold 1960 Rome Team Three-day eventing
Bronze 1968 Mexico City Team Three-day eventing
Bronze 1976 Montreal Team Three-day eventing

James William "Bill" George Roycroft OBE (17 March 1915 – 29 May 2011) was an Olympic equestrian champion who competed for Australia in five consecutive Summer Olympic Games: 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976.

He was born in Flowerdale, Victoria. Although seriously injured during the 1960 Olympics in Rome, he left his hospital bed to compete in Show Jumping, which was the final event. He rode a flawless round, and Australia won the Gold Medal.

He was one of the eight flag-bearers of the Olympic Flag at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Bill Roycroft died in hospital at Camperdown, Victoria on 29 May 2011, age 96.[1] At the time of his death, he was Australia's oldest surviving Olympian.[2]

References

  1. ^ ABC News
  2. ^ The Age: Australia's oldest Olympian dies at 95

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1912: Sweden (Nordlander, Adlercreutz, Casparsson, Horn af Åminne) • 1920: Sweden (Mörner, Lundström, von Braun, Dyrsch) • 1924: Netherlands (van der Voort van Zijp, de Mortanges, de Kruijff, Colenbrander) • 1928: Netherlands (de Mortanges, de Kruijff, van der Voort van Zijp) • 1932: United States (Thomson, Chamberlin, Argo) • 1936: Germany (Stubbendorf, Lippert, von Wangenheim) • 1948: United States (Henry, Anderson, Thomson) • 1952: Sweden (von Blixen-Finecke, Stahre, Frölén) • 1956: Great Britain (Weldon, Rook, Hill) • 1960: Australia (Morgan, Lavis, Roycroft) • 1964: Italy (Checcoli, Angioni, Ravano) • 1968: Great Britain (Allhusen, Meade, Jones) • 1972: Great Britain (Meade, Gordon-Watson, Parker, Phillips) • 1976: United States (Coffin, Plumb, Davidson, Tauskey) • 1980: Soviet Union (Blinov, Salnikov, Volkov, Rogozhin) • 1984: United States (Plumb, Stives, Fleischmann, Davidson) • 1988: West Germany (Erhorn, Baumann, Kaspareit, Ehrenbrink) • 1992: Australia (Green, Rolton, Hoy, Ryan) • 1996: Australia (Schaeffer, Rolton, Hoy, Dutton) • 2000: Australia (Dutton, Hoy, Tinney, Ryan) • 2004: France (Boiteau, Lyard, Courrèges, Teulère, Touzaint) • 2008: Germany (Thomsen, Ostholt, Dibowski, Klimke, Romeike)