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Madden, Beezie
- 2004 U.S. Olympic silver medalist (team show jumping)
- 2003 Pan American Games team gold medallist
- One of only two Americans to win a Pulsar Crown event
- Competition Horse: Authentic (Dutch Warmblood gelding; owned by John Madden Sales & Elizabeth Busch Burke)
- Madden put in impressive performances at the USEF 2004 Olympic Selection Trials– amazingly finishing the trials with a cumulative total of only eight faults for all six selection events
- Helped the U.S. win a team gold medal in the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo
- Rode on the sixth place team at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Spain
- Beat Barcelona Olympic gold medalist Ludger Beerbaum (GER), by 0.31 seconds in a four-horse jump-off at the 2000 Valkenswaard Grand Prix in The Netherlands, becoming only the second American to win a Pulsar Crown event
- Received her first horse as a Christmas gift when she was four years old and began riding at the Milwaukee Hunt Club
- Madden’s interest in horses grew when her family built Apple Ridge, a 32-stall barn in Mequon, Wis., where her parents, Kathy and Joe, ran a horse sales business
- Spent part of her junior year in high school on the Florida show jumping circuit, flying back and forth between horse shows and classes
- Graduated as valedictorian (liberal arts) from Southern Seminary, a Virginia junior college known for its equine excellence
- Turned down admission to Univ. of Virginia to work for Katie Monahan Prudent on her Plain Bay Farm in Middleburg, Virg.
- Her husband, John, is also her coach and horse trainer
Madden’s given first name is Elizabeth, but she goes by her childhood nickname of "Beezie," which was her great-grandmother's name.
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Height: 6’2”
Born: 9-Feb-67
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wis.
Resides: Cazenovia, NY
Sport: Equestrian
Event: Show Jumping
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