Name Virginia Leng | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Olympic medals Equestrian at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Individual Eventing Similar People Ian Stark, Mark Todd, Karen Stives | ||
Virginia Leng and Welton Houdini winning Badminton
Virginia Helen Antoinette "Ginny" Elliott MBE (née Holgate, formerly Leng, born 2 February 1955) is a British equestrian competitor who competed in eventing. She is the 1986 World Champion and three-time Individual European Champion (1985, 1987, 1989). She also won two World team golds (1982 and 1986) and four European team golds (1981, 1985–89). A four-tme Olympic medallist, she won Individual bronze and team silver in both 1984 and 1988. From 2008 to 2013, she was the manager of the Irish eventing team.
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Badminton Horse Trials:
Burghley Horse Trials:
Personal life
Born Virginia Holgate and raised in Malta, she married Julian Leng in 1985. The couple divorced in 1989. In 1993, she married Michael Elliott. Her Horses Night Cap II and Priceless, were by the eventing stallion Ben Faerie. Since the 1980s, she has written several books.