Óscar Cristi Gallo (June 29, 1916 – March 25, 1965) was a Chilean police officer and a successful

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rider from the late 1940s until the late 1960s. In 1952 he won both the individual and team

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silver medals in the jumping competition of the

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event. He was the first Chilean athlete to win two Olympic medals. The Chilean team jumping in 1952 was Óscar Cristi on ''Bambi'',

César Mendoza General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán (September 11, 1918 – September 13, 1996) was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the ''Carabineros de Chile''. M ...

on ''Pillán'' and

Ricardo Echeverría Ricardo Echeverría (31 May 1918 – 15 August 1970) was a Chilean equestrian and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in show jumping competition of the equestrian event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; s ...

on ''Lindo Peal''. On March 25, 1965, Óscar Cristi had a fatal car accident as he was about to retire from the post of Deputy Director-General of the Carabineros. In 1992 the riding school in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

operated by the Carabineros was renamed in his honor.

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