Piaff 399 (SWB)

Olympic Games 1972 – Piaff 399 (SWB born 1958 by Gaspari out of Clodette (5) 5159 by Ruthven-Kondor, breeder Carl-Axel Andreasson) and Liselott Linsenhoff won a individual gold medal (the first time a woman did that) and a team silver. At the Olympic Games 1968, Linsenhoff made history as the first woman to win a gold medal in an equestrian event when she placed first as a member of the German team with Piaff. Piaff covered 76 mares in Sweden, before he was exported to Germany 1965, and left Miss Piaff in S-level dressage and Ärla-Miss in S-level show jumping. Piaff was but to sleep in 1986 at the age of 28. To this day the Liselott Schindling Foundation supports primarily dressage newcomers and bestows the annual Piaff Sponsorship Award. Piaff will always be known in the history as the horse that carried the first female to Olympic victory.