Show-jumping legend Paul Schockemöhle has given a helping hand to 80 refugees fleeing Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
“We picked up 80 people from the Ukrainian-Polish border,” Schockemöhle told a Frankfurt-based media outlet. “They are all women with relatively small children.”
Schockemöhle had been a star on the international equestrian scene for decades; now 76, he won equestrian team jumping silver at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in Montreal and bronze at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and numerous other accolades. Since retiring from competition he runs one of the most successful sport horse breeding and sales farms in Europe.