After being a member of the Three-Day Event team which won the silver medals at three successive Olympics, Michael Plumb won a team gold and an individual silver at the 1976 Games. His total of six Olympic medals bettered Earl Thomson’s record of five for a U.S. equestrian. Apart from his Olympic successes he won two team and one individual gold medal at the Pan-American Games and he was a member of the winning team at the 1974 World Championships, where he won the silver medal in the individual competition. Michael Plumb graduated from the University of Delaware in 1972 and later married the former Donnan Sharp, a well-known equestrienne who also competed in the Olympics. Plumb competed at 7 Olympic Games – 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, and 1992, and would have made it eight had the U.S. competed in 1980. He was 10-times voted U.S. Combined Training Association Rider of the Year.
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