Sport Equestrian Club Skovde FRK | Name Petrus Kastenman Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born 15 August 1924 Balinge, Sweden Died June 10, 2013, Stenstorp, Sweden Olympic medals Equestrian at the 1956 Summer Olympics - Individual Eventing | ||
Lars Petrus Ragnar Kastenman (15 August 1924 – 10 June 2013) was a Swedish Army officer and equestrian who won an individual gold medal in eventing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
Kastenman took up horse riding at the age of 17, when he enlisted at K1 in Stockholm. From there, he was transferred to Skövde in 1949. In 1969, his family moved to Borgunda, where he built a championship eventing course. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was the national coach for juniors, young riders and pony riders, and also coach of the Norwegian and the Finnish national teams. At one time, he coached five different teams. In his later years, he lived in a retirement home in Stenstorp, where he died on 10 June 2013 at the age of 88. He was survived by two children, Björn and Mimmi Kastenman.
Kastenman was captain in the Swedish Army.