Donnan Plumb
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Birth name | Donnan Sharp | ||||||||||||||
Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | August 22, 1938||||||||||||||
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Sport | Equestrian | ||||||||||||||
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Donnan Plumb (née Sharp; born August 22, 1938) is an American equestrian. She competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in team dressage at the 1967 Pan American Games.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit]Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Plumb attended both the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut and the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware.[2]
She married Michael Plumb, an eventing rider who gold at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics;[2] they later divorced.[3] The couple had three sons – Hugh, Matt and Charlie; Charlie became a successful event rider. Matt and Hugh have had a successful auto racing career in sports car racing.[4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Donnan Plumb Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Donna Sharp PLUMB". Oympics.com. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
- ^ Conway, Terry (March 1, 2008). "Keystone Pillar" (PDF). The Blood-Horse: 1274. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ "J. Michael Plumb". United States Eventing Association. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ Quillman, Catherine (August 21, 2005). "A different kind of horse power A Chadds Ford man who came from a competitive equestrian family in Va. likes racing sports cars". The Inquirer. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ "B+ Racing Drivers Al Carter and Hugh Plumb Keep a Positive Attitude After B+ Foundation Heroes 200 Finish Last Saturday!". B+ Racing. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
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Categories:
- 1938 births
- Living people
- American female equestrians
- American dressage riders
- Olympic equestrians for the United States
- Equestrians at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Philadelphia
- Equestrians at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in equestrian
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- American equestrian biography stubs