Beezie Madden
Madden on the medals stand in 2008. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Elizabeth Patton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Elizabeth Madden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Beezie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 20, 1963 (age 61) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | John Madden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Elizabeth Madden (née Patton; born 20 November 1963) is an American Olympic champion equestrian competing in show jumping. She has two Olympic golds and one silver in team jumping, and an individual bronze. She won the FEI Show Jumping World Cup twice; won two silvers and two bronzes at World Championships; and won two golds, one silver and two bronzes at the Pan American Games. She was the first American to break into the international top three show jumping ranking, and the first woman to win over one million dollars in show jumping prize money.
She competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics, winning team gold for the United States; at the 2008 Beijing Olympics winning team gold and individual bronze; at the 2012 London Olympics; and at the 2016 Rio Olympics winning team silver. She and her husband John Madden own and operate John Madden Sales, a horse training and sales business, out of Cazenovia, New York.