Nicolas Touzaint

Nicolas Touzaint
Medal record
Nicolas Touzaint and Hidalgo de l'Ile at the Lancer Village during the cross-country phase of Badminton Horse Trials 2008.

Equestrian
Competitor for France
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	Team eventing
European Championships
	2003 Punchestown	Individual eventing
	2007 Rome	Individual eventing
	2003 Punchestown	Team eventing
	2005 Blenheim	Team eventing
	2007 Rome	Team eventing
	2011 Luhmühlen	Team eventing
	2013 Malmo	Team eventing

Nicolas Touzaint, born 10 May 1980, is a French professional horserider specialising in three-day eventing. He was born into a family already known for its performance in equestrianism: his father, Jean-Yves Touzaint, was champion of France eventing in 1975 and 1976. His uncle, Thierry Touzaint, is a national coach in the same discipline.

On 4 May 2008 he became the first Frenchman to win the Badminton Horse Trials.

Awards

2003: champion of Europe at Punchestown (Ireland) and second in the team event with Galan de Sauvagère.
2004: Olympic champion team in the Olympic Games in Athens, 9 th in individual with Galan de Sauvagère.
2005: Vice-champion of Europe team to Blenheim (England) with Hildago de l'Ile in 2005.
2005: French champion.
2006: French champion, after only three stages, where Nicolas Touzaint finished first in six.
2006: winner of the finals of the World Cup competitions complete with Galan de Sauvagère in Malmo (Sweden).
2006 Winner of Boekelo CCI*** in Boekelo, The Netherlands with Tatchou
2007: Winner of CCI ** Compiègne with Joker of Helby
2007: Winner of CCI *** Pratoni del Vivaro in Italy with Galan de Sauvagère
2007: Winner of CCI *** Fontainebleau with Galan de Sauvagère
2007: Winner of CCI *** Saumur with Tatchou
2007: Champion of France eventing
2007: champion of Europe in Pratoni del Vivaro (Italy) and vice-champion of Europe with a team of Galan Sauvagère
2007: Winner of CCI **** Pau Hidalgo with the island.
2007: After this season he Exceptional is No. 3 on the FEI world rankings list
2008: Champion of France Contest Complete with Tatchou (Pompadour 25–26 April 2008)
2008: winner of CCI **** Badminton (Great Britain) with Hildago de l'Ile.

References

Olympic Equestrian Champions in Team Eventing

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)
2012: Germany (Auffarth, Jung, Klimke, Schrade, Thomsen)

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