Lesley McNaught-Mändli
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Olympic Games
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 | 2000 Sydney | Team jumping |
Lesley McNaught-Mändli (10 February 1964 – 26 December 2023) was a British-born Swiss equestrian.
Biography
[edit]McNaught-Mändli grew up on the family farm in Hinckley, Leicestershire, and began training with Ted Edgar, a successful international show jumper. In 1981 she became a Junior European Champion with her horse One More Time IV, after winning at Aarau, Switzerland.
At the age of 18 she emigrated to Switzerland, where she got a job working for Willi Melliger at his stables near Neuendorf. It was whilst living in Switzerland that Lesley met and married Markus Mändli, brother of a Swiss show jumper Beat Mändli. Riding for Switzerland, Lesley won a silver medal in show jumping at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1]
McNaught-Mändli died on 26 December 2023, at the age of 59.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Lesley McNaught-Mändli". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ↑ Schweizer Olympia-Medaillengewinnerin Lesley McNaught (†59) ist tot (in German)
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