Margaret McIntosh
Sport: Para-Equestrian
Gold: 0 Silver: 0 Bronze: 0
Quick Facts
Birthday: March 24, 1955
Height: 5'5"
Age: 70
Hometown: Reading, PA
Education: Stoneleigh Burnham School (Greenfield, Mass.) ‘72 Cornell University '76, Psychology; Albright College '86, Certificate in Accounting; Villanova University '05; Master of Taxation
Biography
Quick Facts
- McIntosh had a successful able-bodied equestrian career before a fall during the cross-country phase of an eventing competition in 1999 left her with a broken neck. This resulted in incomplete quadriplegia. However, her love of equestrian sport would not keep her down. After working hard to regain her mobility, she made a comeback through para-equestrian dressage as a Grade Ia competitor
- McIntosh is married to her husband, Brian, and they have two children, Charlotte and Cameron.
Career Highlights
- 2016 Team Gold medalist at the Wellington CPEDI3* during week two of the Global Dressage Festival with Rio Rio; won the Grade Ia Freestyle
- Individual Grade Ia Champion at the Wellington CPEDI3* during the first week of the 2016 Global Dressage Festival with Rio Rio
- Won the 2015 Grade Ia Individual Test at the USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage National Championship with Rio Rio
Paralympic Experience
- 1-time Paralympian;
- Paralympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016, 12th (Team - Open), 20th (Individual Championship Test - Grade Ia - Open)
