Tim Stockdale

Stockdale grew up in Retford in north Nottinghamshire. He attended the Sir Frederick Milner Secondary Modern School (later Retford Oaks Academy).[https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/showjumping/form-notes-tim-stockdale-37767 Horse and Hound October 2000]

Stockdale competed in international competitions and rode several horses, owned by him and others. He produced a three-part training video titled Successful Showjumping With Tim Stockdale.{{cite web|title=Successful Show Jumping with Tim Stockdale Vol 1 – Laying the Foundations|website=Amazon UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000MSDPHA|accessdate=28 August 2010}}{{cite web|title=Successful Showjumping With Tim Stockdale Vol.2 – Moving On, Moving Up|website=Amazon UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000KNA68I/|accessdate=28 August 2010}}{{cite web|title=Successful Showjumping With Tim Stockdale Vol.3 – Advanced Showjumping|website=Amazon UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000KNGHNQ/|accessdate=28 August 2010}}{{better source needed|reason=promotional pages|date=January 2022}}

Stockdale had a show jumping career on several different horses. In 2000, he and Traxdata Winston Bridget placed sixth in the London Olympia CSIW Grand Prix.{{cite web|url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/38632.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420140012/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/38632.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2013|publisher=Horse & Hound|accessdate=19 December 2002|title=Nieberg triumphs in Traxdata Grand Prix}} In 2002, he represented Great Britain at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain with Fresh Direct Parcival.{{cite web|url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/35631.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420125303/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/35631.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2013|publisher=Horse & Hound|accessdate=29 August 2002|title=WEG SJ team confirmed}} 2006 saw Stockdale narrowly miss out on the Olympia Grand Prix title to Eugenie Angot, coming second on Fresh Direct Corlato, a mare with whom greater things would come.{{cite web|url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/103814.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130422073049/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/103814.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 April 2013|publisher=Horse & Hound|accessdate=18 December 2006|title=France wins £50,000 Olympia Grand Prix}} In 2007, Stockdale won the Nantes Grand Prix and Bordeaux Grand Prix with Corlato on consecutive weekends,{{cite web|url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/108703.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420224435/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/108703.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2013|publisher=Horse & Hound|accessdate=5 February 2007|title=Success in France for Whitaker and Stockdale}} and placed fifth in the CN International "Million Dollar" Grand Prix.{{cite web|url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/386/143940.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420212252/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/386/143940.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2013|publisher=Horse & Hound|accessdate=18 September 2007|title=Canadian success in Spruce Meadows Masters}}

Stockdale was set on getting to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, shown by his decision not to take his qualified place at the FEI World Cup Finals in Gothenburg.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitislandlife.com/sections/equestrian/tim-stockdale-putting-the-icing-on-the-cake/|publisher=Island Life Magazine|accessdate=11 August 2011|title=Tim Stockdale – Putting the Icing on the Cake|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130205222755/http://www.visitislandlife.com/sections/equestrian/tim-stockdale-putting-the-icing-on-the-cake/|archivedate=5 February 2013|df=dmy-all}} His performances at the Samsung Super League Nations' Cup competitions in Rome and St. Gallen were enough to cement him a place on the 2008 squad; he had produced his horse from a four-year-old.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/2573985/Great-Britains-show-jumping-team-have-good-shot-at-medal-says-manager.html|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=17 August 2008|title=Great Britain's show jumping team have good shot at medal, says manager|date=17 August 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/257113.html |publisher=Horse & Hound |accessdate=27 May 2008 |title=Samsung Super League nations cup victory for Britain in Rome |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530012536/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/390/257113.html |archivedate=30 May 2008 }} Despite the British team finishing 6th, Stockdale qualified for the individual final, producing a clear in the first round, one of nine riders to do so. He could not repeat his performance in the second round and finished best of the British in 16th place.{{cite web|url=http://www.regardinghorses.com/2008/08/21/day-12-canadian-takes-show-jumping-gold|publisher= Regarding Horses|accessdate=21 August 2008|title=Day 12: Canadian Takes Show Jumping Gold}}

Stockdale completed his championship appearance hat-trick by representing Great Britain at the 2009 European Championships at Windsor Park with Fresh Direct Corlato after helping the British team to second place in the Dublin CSIO***** Nations' Cup.{{cite web|url=http://eventcontent.hippoonline.de/421/docs/erg02ST.pdf|publisher= Hippo Data|accessdate=28 August 2009|title=Alltech FEI European Championship for Jumping - Windsor 2009}} The loss of his top horse, Corlato, due to an injury sustained at Spruce Meadows in 2009, coincided with the rise of the ISH gelding Fresh Direct Kalico Bay to form. Stockdale and Kalico Bay won three international grands prix the following year, including the King George V Gold Cup at Hickstead, which served as retribution after the last fence in the jump off denied Stockdale the title with Corlato in 2009.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/equestrianism/7921406/Tim-Stockdale-triumphs-in-King-George-V-Gold-Cup-at-Hickstead.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909020427/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/equestrianism/7921406/Tim-Stockdale-triumphs-in-King-George-V-Gold-Cup-at-Hickstead.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 September 2010|newspaper=Telegraph|date=1 August 2010|title=Tim Stockdale triumphs in King George V Gold Cup at Hickstead|location=London|first=Pippa|last=Cuckson}} This form continued on British soil with Kalico Bay placing in both the Horse of the Year Show and Olympia grands prix.

2011 brought Nations' Cup appearances at St. Gallen and Falsterbo for Stockdale, as well as a near-defence of his King George V title,{{cite web|url=http://www.longinestiming.com/File/Download?id=0002060310FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF01|publisher=Longines Timing|accessdate=31 July 2011|title=The Longines King George V Gold Cup|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120119/http://www.longinestiming.com/File/Download?id=0002060310FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF01|archivedate=26 August 2014|df=dmy-all}} However, on 17 October, while trying a young horse at a small farm in rural Wales, Stockdale sustained fractures to three vertebrae in his neck in a fall.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/equestrian/15544194|publisher= BBC Sport|accessdate=11 November 2011|title=Olympic show jumper Stockdale on mend after broken neck|date= November 2011}} Four months after his accident, he was back riding, which was considered impossible.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/16913014|publisher= BBC Sport|accessdate=24 February 2012|title=London 2012: Tim Stockdale back on track after neck break|date= 6 February 2012}} Once back in the saddle, he embarked upon a course to qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London, described as "one of the most remarkable comebacks by a British athlete in Olympic history."{{cite web|url=http://www.teamgb.com/news/stockdale-eyes-remarkable-return|publisher=Press Association Ltd.|accessdate=20 June 2012|title=Stockdale eyes remarkable return}} At the CSIO***** Nations' Cup of St. Gallen, he and Fresh Direct Kalico Bay produced one of three double clears to lead Great Britain to second place, and take second place in the Longines Grand Prix of St. Gallen.{{cite web|url=http://www.teamgb.com/news/stockdale-eyes-remarkable-return|publisher=Press Association Ltd.|accessdate=20 June 2012|title=Stockdale eyes remarkable return}} At the Nations' Cup of Rotterdam, the pair did not reproduce their form and, though they were short-listed for the British squad, they did not make the final team.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18676671|publisher= BBC Sport|accessdate=2 July 2012|title=London 2012: Tim Stockdale ' gutted' to miss Olympics|date= 2 July 2012}}

Stockdale was also a trainer in show jumping, having taught celebrities to show jump in the Sport Relief series Only Fools on Horses aired in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/06_june/08/ofoh.shtml|publisher= BBC Press Office|accessdate=8 June 2006|title=Stars saddle-up for Only Fools on Horses}}

Stockdale was banned from Olympic competition in July 2002 when his horse's urine tested positive for a prohibited sedative. However, he was reinstated in 2004 when the British Olympic Association deemed his offence minor, also taking into account that it did not meet the chief intent of the lifetime ban to cover offences involving drugs "of a performance-enhancing nature." This made him eligible to compete at the 2004 Athens Olympics,{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/news/story?id=1714398|publisher=ESPN|agency=Associated Press|date=14 July 2004|access-date=28 August 2010|title= Stockdale has lifetime ban lifted}} although he did not make the team.{{cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/athletes?lname=all&country=gbr&sport=equestrian|title=Athens 2004 Athletes|publisher=Yahoo Sports|accessdate=7 July 2012

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He lived in Roade, then in South Northamptonshire. His son Joe Stockdale is also a show jumper.{{cite web|url=https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/features/joe-stockdale-mark-stockdale-tim-stockdales-sons-853662|website=Horse and Hound|date=1 April 2024|title=Joe Stockdale and Mark Stockdale are inspired by late father Tom Stockdale}}

Stockdale died on 14 November 2018 at the age of 54 after a short illness, suffering from stomach cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/equestrian/46214585|title=Tim Stockdale: British Olympic show jumper dies aged 54|work=BBC News|date=14 Nov 2018|accessdate=15 Nov 2018}}

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