Piet Raijmakers
_(cropped).jpg) Raijmakers in 1996 | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Equestrian | ||
Representing the  Netherlands | ||
Olympic Games
 | ||
 | 1992 Barcelona | Team jumping |
 | 1992 Barcelona | Individual jumping |
| European Championships | ||
| 1991 La Baule | Team jumping |
Petrus Josephus "Piet" Raijmakers (born 29 September 1956, in Asten) is a former equestrian from the Netherlands.
Raijmakers won the gold medal in the show jumping team event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He did so alongside Jos Lansink, Jan Tops and Bert Romp. In the individual jumping competition Raijmakers claimed the silver medal on Ratina Z, behind Germany's Ludger Beerbaum on Classic Touch.
In 2006, Raijmakers won team gold alongside Jeroen Dubbeldam, Gerco Schröder and Albert Zoer at the World Equestrian Games in Aachen.[1]
At the World Cup-horse show "Indoor Brabant" in 's-Hertogenbosch (March 2010), he ended his sporting career.[2] His sons, Piet Raijmakers Jr. and Joep Raijmakers, are also active equestrians.
References
[edit]- ↑ World Equestrian Games Aachen 2006 Deprecated link archived 2007-05-26 at archive.today
- ↑ "Prachtig afscheid voor Piet Raijmakers" including video clips (dutch)
- Dutch Olympic Committee (in Dutch)
- DatabaseOlympics profile
External links
[edit]
   | This article about a Dutch Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
| This biographical article related to Netherlands equestrianism is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Dutch show jumping riders
- Olympic equestrians for the Netherlands
- Dutch male equestrians
- Equestrians at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- People from Asten, Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in equestrian
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Equestrians from North Brabant
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch equestrian biography stubs