Who's Who

King, Mary

Discipline : Eventing

Born : 1961

Lives : Newark-on-Trent

 

Mary Elizabeth King MBE (née Thomson) represented Great Britain at six Olympics from 1992 to 2012, winning two silver and one bronze medal in the team eventing. She has won two gold and one silver medal in the World Equestrian Games team eventing and four team gold medals at the European Eventing Championships along with one bronze and one silver individual medal. Nationally, she was the British Open Champion in 1990, 1991 & 1996 and won the CCI four star Badminton Horse Trials in 1992 & 2000, and the CCI four star Burghley Horse Trials in 1996.

She was a member of the gold medal winning British team at the London Games.

Publications:

Mary Thomson’s Eventing Year, 1993

All The Kings Horses, 1997

William and Mary, 1998

Mary King: The Autobiography, 2009

www.maryking.co.uk

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