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Olympic medal record
Equestrian
Gold 1960 Rome Team Three-day eventing
Bronze 1968 Mexico City Team Three-day eventing
Bronze 1976 Montreal Team Three-day eventing

James William "Bill" George Roycroft OBE (born 17 March 1915) is a former Olympic equestrian champion who competed for Australia in five Olympic Games: 1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics, 1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics, and 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Flowerdale, Victoria.

Although seriously injured during the 1960 Olympics in Rome, he left his hospital bed to compete in Show Jumping, which was the final event. He rode a flawless round, and Australia won the Gold Medal.

He was one of the eight flag-bearers of the Olympic Flag at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

As of 14 February 2008 Roycroft is Australia's oldest surviving Olympian.[1]

References

  1. ^ The Age: Australia's oldest Olympian dies at 95

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Olympic Equestrian Champions in Team Eventing

1912: Sweden (Nordlander, Adlercreutz, Casparsson, Horn af Åminne) • 1920: Sweden (Mörner, Lundström, von Braun, Dyrsch) • 1924: Netherlands (van der Voort van Zijp, de Mortanges, de Kruijff, Colenbrander) • 1928: Netherlands (de Mortanges, de Kruijff, van der Voort van Zijp) • 1932: United States (Thomson, Chamberlin, Argo) • 1936: Germany (Stubbendorf, Lippert, von Wangenheim) • 1948: United States (Henry, Anderson, Thomson) • 1952: Sweden (von Blixen-Finecke, Stahre, Frölén) • 1956: Great Britain (Weldon, Rook, Hill) • 1960: Australia (Morgan, Lavis, Roycroft) • 1964: Italy (Checcoli, Angioni, Ravano) • 1968: Great Britain (Allhusen, Meade, Jones) • 1972: Great Britain (Meade, Gordon-Watson, Parker, Phillips) • 1976: United States (Coffin, Plumb, Davidson, Tauskey) • 1980: Soviet Union (Blinov, Salnikov, Volkov, Rogozhin) • 1984: United States (Plumb, Stives, Fleischmann, Davidson) • 1988: West Germany (Erhorn, Baumann, Kaspareit, Ehrenbrink) • 1992: Australia (Green, Rolton, Hoy, Ryan) • 1996: Australia (Schaeffer, Rolton, Hoy, Dutton) • 2000: Australia (Dutton, Hoy, Tinney, Ryan) • 2004: France (Boiteau, Lyard, Courrèges, Teulère, Touzaint) • 2008: Germany (Thomsen, Ostholt, Dibowski, Klimke, Romeike)







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