
(ne Holgate, formerly Leng born 1 February 1955), sometimes known as Ginny Leng. Ginny by Holgate, Virginia and Murphy, Genevieve and a great selection of related books. Holgate-Leng was world individual champion in 1986 and helped Britain to world team eventing titles in 19. Virginia Helen Antoinette Elliott MBE, sometimes known as Ginny Leng. Holgate-Leng also won the Badminton Horse Trials Championships in 19 and holds the record at the Burghley Horse Trials with three wins (1983, 1984, and 1986).

“Ginny” Holgate had claimed a team gold at the 1981 European championships, but her big breakthrough came in 1985 when she won the European title in the three-day individual and helped Britain to the team title. She repeated those performances in 1988 at Seoul. Ginny - An Autobiography by Murphy, Genevieve. In her Olympic début as Miss Holgate in 1984 she won a bronze in the individual three-day, and a silver in the team event. She made the 1980 British Olympic team but the equestrian athletes did not go to Moscow. Her career was interrupted in 1976 when she broke her left arm in 23 places and amputation was considered.


As the daughter of peripatetic Colonel Ronald Morris Holgate, “Ginny” Leng was raised in many countries of the world before settling in Britain in 1971. Lung tissue slides were stained with hematoxylin and eosin by the University of Virginia Research Histology Core (Charlottesville, VA) and scanned by the.
