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Dujardin and Valegro were among the rider/horse pairs selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, [25] In the first round this dressage team set a new Olympic Record of 83.784%. On 7 August 2012 the pair were members of the British team which won the gold medal in the team dressage event. [ 26 ]
Lee Pearson runs his own dressage yard in Staffordshire and teaches many around the country. [13] [14] Pearson was the first openly gay member of the British team and is an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. [2] [3] [15] [16] In 2020, he became a single foster parent to a 15-year-old foster son. [17]
The first was during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia when, due to Australian quarantine laws, the equestrian portion was held in Stockholm, Sweden. At the next IOC meeting, it was decided to hold a special Equestrian Olympic Games several months before the actual Olympics, complete with its own opening and closing ceremonies. [12]
Judy Reynolds (born 11 June 1981 in Kildare, Ireland) is an Irish Olympic dressage rider. [1] Representing Ireland, she participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she achieved 18th place in the individual competition.
Reiner Klimke (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈklɪmkə] ⓘ; 14 January 1936 – 17 August 1999) was a German equestrian, who won six gold and two bronze medals in dressage at the Summer Olympics — a record for equestrian events that has since been surpassed. He appeared in six Olympics from 1960 to 1988, excluding the 1980 Games that ...
Isabell Werth (born 21 July 1969 in Issum) is a German equestrian who has competed in dressage at seven Olympic Games —1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024— winning the gold medal in the team event in all seven, and one gold and six silver medals in the individual event.
Three-time Olympic gold medalist dressage star Charlotte Dujardin has been banned for one year and fined for "excessively" whipping a horse.. Video went viral just days before the beginning of the ...
Daniel Bachmann Andersen (born 1 June 1990) is a Danish Olympic equestrian athlete. He competed at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon 2018 and at the European Dressage Championships in 2015 and 2019.