Sam Griffiths
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_2011.jpg) Sam Griffiths and Happy Times at the Quarry during the cross-country phase of Badminton Horse Trials 2011. | ||
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Representing  Australia | ||
Olympic Games
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 | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Team eventing |
Sam Griffiths is an Australian Eventing rider from Pearcedale in Victoria. 2017 saw him as the Ambassador to the Mitsubishi Motors Adelaide International Horse Trials. 4th individually at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and part of the Bronze medal winning team. He won the 2014 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials riding Paulank Brockagh who he later went on to ride in the FEI World Equestrian Games. Winner of the 2014 Event Rider of the Year L'Année Hippique Awards. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Individual and Team eventing, but fell during the cross-country event and did not finish.[1][2] He was originally selected as the second reserve rider, but entered the team when two other Australian horses were unable to compete.[3] Now based in the UK competing himself and training other riders.
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| Event | Kentucky | Badminton | Luhmühlen | Burghley | Pau | Adelaide | Bicton | |||||
| 2004 | 6th (Private Colin) 34th (Chamois IV) |
17th (Private Colin) | ||||||||||
| 2005 | 15th (Connigar Bay) | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 26th (Connigar Bay) | 8th (Connigar Bay) | ||||||||||
| 2007 | WD (Connigar Bay) | 11th (Connigar Bay) | ||||||||||
| 2008 | 26th (Connigar Bay) | |||||||||||
| 2009 |  (Happy Times) |
(Happy Times) |
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| 2010 | Did not participate | |||||||||||
| 2011 | 4th (Happy Times) | 16th (Happy Times) | ||||||||||
| 2012 | 9th (Happy Times) | |||||||||||
| 2013 | 15th (Happy Times) 43rd (Paulank Brockagh) |
12th (Happy Times) 13th (Paulank Brockagh) |
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| 2014 |  (Paulank Brockagh) |
(Happy Times) |
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| 2015 | 10th (Paulank Brockagh) RET (Happy Times) |
9th (Paulank Brockagh) 27th (Happy Times) |
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| 2016 | 29th (Paulank Brockagh) | RET (Happy Times) | ||||||||||
| 2017 | 34th (Paulank Brockagh) | 8th (Paulank Brockagh) | ||||||||||
| 2018 | 15th (Paulank Brockaugh) | |||||||||||
| 2019 | RET (Billy Liffy) | 7th (Paulank Brockagh) | ||||||||||
| 2021 | 13th (Gutera Cher) | |||||||||||
| EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew | ||||||||||||