Susan M. "Sue" Blinks (born October 5, 1957) is an American

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rider and trainer. She was best known for riding her Olympic Grand Prix mount Flim Flam. Having represented the

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in an Olympics and two World Equestrian Games, she helped the US Team earn an Olympic Bronze Medal in

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and competed in the 1998 and 2002 World Equestrian Games. Blinks spent her teens training with Marianne Ludwig. She worked as Equestrian Director at the University of Massachusetts and later trained with Walter Christenson in Germany. She also trained with

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and Uwe Schulten-Baumer in Germany. Until 2016, Sue resided in

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, CA, riding for Leatherdale Farm. She has since relocated to Florida, where she continues riding and training.

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* Living people 1957 births American female equestrians Equestrians at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in equestrian American dressage riders Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 21st-century American women {{US-equestrian-bio-stub