Berend "Bert" Romp (4 November 1958 – 4 October 2018) was a Dutch
equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
and Olympic champion in the sport. He won a gold medal in
show jumping with the Dutch team at the
1992 Summer Olympics
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in
Barcelona
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.
Romp died on 4 October 2018, a month before his 60th birthday, after a horse kicked him.
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1958 births
2018 deaths
Dutch show jumping riders
Olympic equestrians of the Netherlands
Dutch male equestrians
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Equestrians at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 1996 Summer Olympics
People from Veendam
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Deaths by horse-riding accident in the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Groningen (province)
20th-century Dutch people
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