František Ventura (13 August 1894 in
Vysoké Mýto
Vysoké Mýto (; german: Hohenmaut, also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. ...
– 1 December 1969 in
Prague
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) was a
Czech
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who competed in the
1928 Summer Olympics.
In 1928, he and his horse Eliot won the gold medal in the individual jumping competition. The Czechoslovak jumping team did not finish the
team jumping competition, because one of their riders was disqualified in the individual competition.
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1894 births
1969 deaths
People from Vysoké Mýto
20th-century Czech people
Czechoslovak male equestrians
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Show jumping riders
Olympic equestrians of Czechoslovakia
Equestrians at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Pardubice Region
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