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(Dressage rider) Heinz Pollay was a highly successful German horse rider renowned for his achievements in dressage competitions from the late 1930s to early 1950s. He participated in two Summer Olympics, winning two gold medals in Dressage individual and Dressage team events in 1936, along with a bronze in the Dressage team event in 1952. Pollay also made history by taking the Judge's Oath at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, becoming the first official to do so at the event.
