Blyth competed at four Olympic Games to win four medals, one of only four New Zealanders to do so. His first international success was in Stockholm at the first WEG where he won individual gold on Messiah, and was a member of the gold medal Kiwi team.

At Barcelona, he won an individual bronze, and team silver again with Messiah. At Atlanta he won gold in the individual event on Ready Teddy, and was a member of the bronze medal winning team on Chesterfield (this was one of two occasions, Sydney 2000 was the other, when two separate events, individual and team were run at the insistence of the IOC.)

At the WEG in Rome in 1998, Blyth and Teddy won individual and team gold. At Sydney, he was eliminated in both the team and individual events, before going on to Athens, where he individually 18^th in the Kiwi team that was fifth, again on Ready Teddy.

After several years in retirement, Tait returned to competitive eventing in 2011 with the announced intention of trying to secure a place in the New Zealand team for the 2012 London Olympics, this did not happen, but he remains in the UK attempting to make the team for the 2014 WEG in Caen.

Publications:

Blyth Tait – Eventing Insights (1995)