Frank Chapot

Frank Chapot competed in Olympic show jumping six times, winning two silver medals in the team event, and having a highest individual placing of fourth in 1968. Through 2010, he is one of only six Americans to compete in six Olympic Games. At the Pan American Games he won two gold in team jumping, 1959 with Hugh Wiley, Bill Steinkraus, and George Morris and 1963 with Mary Mairs, Kathy Kusner, and Bill Steinkraus, and two silver medal in the individual show jumping event in 1959 and with the jumping team in 1967, which consisted of the same members as four years before. In 1966 Frank Chapot placed second in the European Show Jumping championship to become the first American medalist in this event. In 1965 Frank Chapot, a Penn graduate, married Mary Mairs, twice his Olympic teammate, and they later farmed in New Jersey.