Word: steinkraus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, a 43-year-old book editor, earned the U.S. its first equestrian gold medal in 20 years when he piloted a borrowed, gimpy-legged, nine-year-old gelding named Snowbound to victory in the Grand Prix jumping event...
...show they saw was livelier than any in years. Energetic Lawyer James A. Thomas Jr., 38, the show's new president, who used to be an outstanding contestant himself, cut the running time by starting the jumps higher; opening-night suburbanites could watch U.S. Team Captain William Steinkraus win the nerve-stretching ''Democrat'' Memorial Challenge Trophy* and still catch the midnight train home. Thomas also pepped up the show with a rodeo touch: cowgirls racing quarter horses around a cloverleaf barrel course. Another innovation almost anyone could have anticipated: a class for Shetland ponies...
...Guiding his horse Injun through a faultless ride over a 17-obstacle 810-yd. course, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, top U.S. equestrian and captain of the 1960 Olympic team that won a silver medal in jumping, easily won London's Country Life and Riding Cup competition at White City Stadium. Steinkraus toured the course in 90.6 sec., beat Britain's George Hobbs...