# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-griffiths
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:52:04.929Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-griffiths"
name: "Sam Griffiths"
slug: "sam-griffiths"
description: "Sam Griffiths is an Australian Eventing rider from Pearcedale in Victoria. 2017 saw him as the Ambassador to the Mitsubishi Motors Adelaide International Horse Trials. 4th individually at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and part of the Bronze medal winning team. He won the 2014 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials riding Paulank Brockagh who he later went on to ride in the FEI World Equestrian Games. Winner of the 2014 Event Rider of the Year L'Année Hippique Awards. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Individual and Team eventing, but fell during the cross-country event and did not finish. He was originally selected as the second reserve rider, but entered the team when two other Australian horses were unable to compete. \nNow based in the UK competing himself and training other riders."
tagline: "Australian equestrian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Griffiths_Happy_Times_Quarry_Badminton_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1972-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.2
  historical:           10.87141866666667
  currentAttention:     9.36
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Sam Griffiths"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump