Women - Hunterdon County, New Jersey

ANNE KURSINSKI
Anne Kursinski, a professional jumper/horse trainer based at George Morris'
Hunterdon, Inc. in Pittstown, was a member of the 1996 Olympic Silver Medal
equestrian team.
Her first round in the Olympics set the stage for the Americans to challenge for a
medal. Anne's mount went clear for that round, thereby encouraging her team
members to higher standards.
1996 was the first time in eight years that the United States Equestrian Team
(USET) had medaled in either an Olympics or a world championship.
Anne was a member or alternate member of three consecutive U. S. Olympic
teams, including the 1988 squad that won the team Silver Medal in Seoul, Korea. She
began competing for USET in 1978. In 1983 she won individual and team Gold Medals
in the Caracas, Venezuela, Pan-American Games.
Anne’s mount in Caracas was Livius, on whom she became the first American to
win the Grand Prix of Rome, Italy in May 1983. In Rome, she contributed to an
American win in the Nation’s Cup competition.
In 1987 Kursinski rode Starman for the USET in three winning Nation’s Cup efforts
in Aschen, Germany, in Hickstead, England, and in Calgary, Canada.
She was honored as the Leading Lady Rider at the 1991 World Cup Final in
Gothenburg, Sweden. In June 1991 she won the Grand Prix of Aachen and became the
second woman and only the third American ever to win this event. That same year
Anne was named the female Equestrian Athlete of the Year by the United States
Olympic Committee.
In 1995 Anne won the American Gold Cup for a record fourth time.
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