Whitaker celebrates birthday with Youth Olympic team silver

Jack Whitaker has won a silver medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires on his 17th birthday – and is to contend for an individual medal this week.

The young showjumper was part of the European team that finished in second place in the Games, narrowly beaten on time by North America in a jump-off.

In a feat 34 years after his father Michael and uncle John Whitaker won team silver at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Jack and LV Chance Luck jumped clear in their first round of competition, hitting just one fence in the next.

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Article written by: Eleanor Jones