Essay

 Hello people,

Today in class we have been writing about people in New Zealand that are inspirational people. I picked Sir Mark Todd he was a really good equestrian he won honours and Olympic awards. We had to get some facts or information that we found interesting and then write an essay on it.

                        Sir Mark Todd

Mark Todd is one of the most skilled equestrians and has won a lot of honour awards. He also has been to the Olympics. He started at a young age and has always loved horses. He joined a horse club. He started around age 10.

Mark Todd has won the 6th cup Olympic games which was held in Tokyo. One of the first New Zealand people to have won. He's got 2 gold medals and 3 bronze medals. All of them are from different events. The horse he had to win was a male horse named Charisma. He got put down after being 30 years old after a shoulder injury in the field from being retired. 

Sir Mark Todd had wanted to be a jockey but after being 6ft 2 ended that dream so he took up Show Jumping. He is really good at show jumping as well as all the other events he did. Sir Mark Todd has done a lot of the sports Dressage, Jumping and Cross Country.He has many different awards for all of his accomplishments and honour awards.

Sir Mark Todd opened his own brand of clothes for sizes for all. There are jumpers, jodhpurs, boots.There are also things to buy for the horse. People have been inspired and some have opened their own small shop and their inspiration was Mark Todd and wanted to be as great as he was.

So In conclusion these are some of the reasons why I think that Sir Mark Todd is an inspiration to New Zealanders.