Blyth Tait

Blyth Tait

Medal record
Representing New Zealand
Equestrian
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	Individual eventing
	1992 Barcelona	Team eventing
	1992 Barcelona	Individual eventing
	1996 Atlanta	Team eventing
World Championships
	1990 Stockholm	Individual eventing
	1990 Stockholm	Team eventing
	1998 Rome	Individual eventing
	1998 Rome	Team eventing

Blyth Tait (born 10 May 1961 in Whangarei) is a New Zealand equestrian. Tait has competed at four Olympics and has won four medals, one of only four New Zealanders to do so.

Tait's first success at international level was at the 1990 World Equestrian Games in Stockholm, when he won Gold in both the individual and team events riding Messiah. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona he won Bronze in the individual event after team-mate Vicky Latta knocked down a rail in the showjumping, and Silver in the team event with Latta and Andrew Nicholson (Mark Todd was also in the team but was not awarded a medal as he did not finish the event). At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta he won Gold in the individual and Bronze in the Team event. Tait repeated his World Championships double Gold effort at Rome in 1998 riding Ready Teddy. He was flag-bearer for the New Zealand team at the 2000 Summer Olympics but he was eliminated in both the individual and team events. Tait completed his competitive Olympic career with a fifth in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He has been named as the eventing manager for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He is openly gay.

Olympic record

• 1992: individual bronze; team silver (both on Messiah)
• 1996: individual gold (on Ready Teddy); team bronze (on Chesterfield)
• 2000: individual did not finish (on Welton Envoy); team did not finish (on Ready Teddy)
• 2004: individual 18th; team 5th (both on Ready Teddy)

Notes and references

Awards
Preceded by Rob Waddell	Lonsdale Cup of the New Zealand Olympic Committee 2001	Succeeded by Sarah Ulmer