![]() Her highest finish in equitation was eighth at the Medal Final, a national competition. She rode in the hunters for most of her junior career, but competed equitation for her last two junior years, and jumpers in her final year. They rode the ponies bareback, as they only had bridles. Her brother Stuart also rode, and received a pony for Christmas that same year, naming it Fudge. She began riding at three years old and received her first pony as a Christmas gift at roughly age four or five. As a child, she rode at the Milwaukee Hunt Club, where her parents kept the horses they trained and sold. Her parents were involved in horse training and sales, and eventually built a stable of their own. Madden was born Elizabeth Patton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Kathleen "Kathy" McGregor/Schlesinger and Joseph "Joe" Patton. She and her husband John Madden own and operate John Madden Sales, a horse training and sales business, out of Cazenovia, New York. ![]() 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 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 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 has two Olympic golds and one silver in team jumping, and an individual bronze. Elizabeth Madden (née Patton born 20 November 1963) is an American Olympic champion equestrian competing in show jumping.
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