Robin Hahn

Robin Hahn grew up riding horses to school and soon transformed his passion into a career in equestrian eventing. After graduating from the University of Guelph, he trained in Eastern Canada and was selected as an alternate to the 1956 Stockholm Equestrian Olympics but did not compete. His début at the Games would have to wait until 1968, where he was ninth individually and eighth with the Canadian team. A year earlier, he had come in fifth at the 1967 Pan American Games. He had much more success at that tournament four years later, when he captured the eventing gold team medal.

Hahn’s next stop was the 1972 Munich Olympics, where he and Clint Banbury failed to complete the program, thus preventing Canada from placing in the team tournament. Four years later, at the 1976 Montreal Games, he was sixth with the Canadian team and 26th individually. His last major international tournament was the 1982 World Championships, but he continued competing until he was nearly 80 years old. Domestically, he was a four-time national champion (1967, 1969, 1971, and 1972). By career, he was a coach, horse trainer, and owner of an equestrian farm in British Columbia. He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.