ParalympicsGB has confirmed the four Para equestrian athlete and horse combinations set to compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The all-female squad features three medal-winning combinations from Tokyo 2020, in addition to the current Para dressage world number one, who will be making her Paralympic Games debut. Natasha Baker (Grade 3) has been selected
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the three squads of riders who will travel to France this summer to represent Team GB in the equestrian competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The squad of four representing dressage offers a mix of experience and young talent with Carl Hester set to compete in
Aamilah Aswat, one of the first students to graduate from the Riding A Dream Academy, has been appointed Senior Trainee at the British Racing School. Aamilah, 16, from Gloucester who learned to ride at St James’s City Farm and Riding School and was supported by The Jockey Club, was part of the first group of
Sir Lee Pearson danced to a 14th Paralympic gold medal on his horse Breezer and in a glimpse of the future, was joined on the podium by 25-year-old Games debutant Georgia Wilson. The pair are separated by 22 years of age – this is Pearson’s fifth Games and Wilson’s first – but both shone in
You would think that after notching an incredible 13th Paralympic gold medal, that Sir Lee Pearson knows what he is doing as well as anyone on a horse. And yet after a shock dressage team test to music gold in Tokyo, the 47-year-old equestrian star was adamant it was not the case. He joked: “We
ParalympicsGB are on track to medal in the equestrian team test as Sir Lee Pearson, Natasha Baker and Sophie Wells sit in third place overnight and best of the teams with one athlete still left to ride. Grade II rider Pearson started well on Saturday, on his home-bred horse Breezer, with a score of 77.636
Natasha Baker kept the equestrian medals flowing in Tokyo with ParalympicsGB’s fourth gong in two days, clinching an incredible silver in the dressage grade III individual test on Keystone Dawn Chorus. The five-time Paralympic champion had seen Sir Lee Pearson romp to a 12th Games gold medal during the opening bout of equestrian action a
ParalympicsGB has confirmed the selection of four Para equestrian athlete and horse combinations to compete at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. All four riders are defending Paralympic champions, most recently having represented ParalympicsGB at Rio 2016 and London 2012, while the horses all make their first Games appearance. Sophie Christiansen (Grade 1) has competed
Six rider and horse combinations and two travelling reserves have been named by the British Olympic Association (BOA) to compete in the dressage and eventing disciplines as part of the equestrian competition at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The jumping trio will be named at a later date. Four riders will be making their
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