Virginia Leng

Virginia Leng
Medal record
Competitor for  Great Britain
Equestrian
Olympic Games
1984 Los Angeles Team eventing
1988 Seoul Team eventing
1984 Los Angeles Individual eventing
1988 Seoul Individual eventing
World Championships
1982 Luhmühlen Team eventing
1986 Gawler Individual eventing
1986 Gawler Team eventing
1990 Stockholm Team eventing
European Championships
1981 Horsens Team eventing
1985 Burghley Individual eventing
1985 Burghley Team eventing
1987 Luhmühlen Individual eventing
1987 Luhmuhlen Team eventing
1989 Burghley Individual eventing
1989 Burghley Team eventing
1983 Frauenfeld Team eventing

Virginia Helen Antoinette "Ginny" Elliott MBE (née Holgate, formerly Leng, born 2 February 1955)[1] is a British equestrian competitor who competed in eventing. She is the 1986 World Champion and three-time Individual European Champion (1985, 1987, 1989). She also won two World team golds (1982 and 1986) and four European team golds (1981, 1985–89). A four-tme Olympic medallist, she won Individual bronze and team silver in both 1984 and 1988. From 2008 to 2013, she was the manager of the Irish eventing team.

Major wins

World and European titles:

Badminton Horse Trials:

Burghley Horse Trials:

Personal life

Born Virginia Holgate and raised in Malta, she married Julian Leng in 1985. The couple divorced in 1989. In 1993, she married Michael Elliott. Her Horses Night Cap II and Priceless, were by the eventing stallion Ben Faerie. Since the 1980s, she has written several books.[2]

References

  1. sports-reference.com bio Accessed 30 October 2008
  2. British Library


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