Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr.

Baron Nils Gustaf Fredrik Bror "Hans" von Blixen-Finecke Jr. (20 July 1916 – 16 February 2005) was a Swedish Army officer and horse rider. He competed in the three-day eventing at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and won individual and team gold medals in 1952.
Career.
Von Blixen-Finecke was born in Linköping, Sweden, the son of Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke, who won an Olympic bronze in dressage in 1912, and his wife Baroness Brita Trolle. He was the nephew of Bror von Blixen-Finecke and writer Karen Blixen. He was born as Nils Gustaf Fredrik Bror, but since the age of one was called Hans after his father, who died in an airplane crash.
He passed "studentexamen" at Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket in 1934. He was commissioned as an officer in 1937, serving in the Life Regiment of Horse (K 1). In 1950, he was promoted to "ryttmästare" (cavalry captain) in the Life Regiment Hussars (K 3) and to major in North Scanian Infantry Regiment (I 6) in 1957. von Blixen-Finecke served as commanding officer of the Swedish Army Riding and Horse-Driving School from 1959 to 1964. In 1964 he left the Swedish Army and moved to England, where he established his own equestrian centre in Surrey before moving in the early 1970s to Cornwall.
Personal life.
In 1941, he married Baroness Anna Beck-Friis (born 1921), the daughter of Baron Jochum Beck-Friis and Signe Grenander, with whom he had two children, Hans (born 1942) and Gustaf (born 1945). In 1959, he married Anne Hetherington (born 1923), the daughter of Harry Hetherington and Merriell MacMahon.
Awards and decorations.
von Blixen-Finecke's awards: