Tinks Pottinger | |
Birth Name: | Judith Anne White |
Birth Date: | 26 April 1956 |
Birth Place: | Waipawa, New Zealand |
Height: | 167 cm |
Weight: | 63 kg |
Country: | New Zealand |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Judith Anne Pottinger (née White; born 26 April 1956), known as Tinks Pottinger, is a New Zealand horsewoman who won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Pottinger, riding Volunteer, was in the New Zealand three-day event team which finished third, along with Andrew Bennie, Margaret Knighton and Mark Todd. In the individual three-day event at the same Olympics, she finished fifth.[1]
Pottinger continued to compete in eventing until the late 1990s.
Pottinger was born in Waipawa on 26 April 1956, the daughter of Helen "Tiny" White (née Groome), a noted horsewoman and FEI judge, and Eric White.[2] [3] She was educated at Woodford House and Wellington Polytechnic.[2] In 1983, she married Andy Pottinger, and the couple went on to have two children, including Amanda Pottinger, who has won the New Zealand three-day event championship.[2] [3]