Jacques Cariou

Jacques Cariou

Jean Cariou at the 1912 Olympics
Personal information
Born 23 September 1870
Peumérit, France
Died 7 October 1951 (aged 81)
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
Country France
Sport Horse riding

Jacques Cariou (23 September 1870 – 7 October 1951)[1] was a French show jumping champion. Cariou participated at the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, where he won a gold medal in the individual jumping, a silver medal in team jumping with the horse Mignon, and a bronze medal in individual three-day eventing with the horse Cocotte.[2]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean Cariou.
  1. Jacques Cariou's. Sports Reference.com
  2. "1912 Summer Olympics Stockholm, Sweden Equestrian" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 5 September 2008)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.