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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Irish, British |
| Born | April 1, 1956 |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Ireland |
| Sport | Equestrian |
Dane Rawlins is a British born dressage rider competing for Ireland. [1] He competed at the 2013 European Championships in Herning and was the founder and dressage show organizer at the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead for 27 years. [2]
The All England Jumping Course at Hickstead, widely known as Hickstead, is an equestrian centre in West Sussex, England, principally recognised for its showjumping events. It hosts two international competitions: the Al Shira'aa British Jumping Derby Meeting and the Longines Royal International Horse Show. Opened in 1960, Hickstead was the first permanent showground for equestrian sport in the country. The first Hickstead Derby was held in 1961.
Paul Schockemöhle is a German former showjumper. He was a successful international show jumping equestrian in the 1970s and 1980s at individual and team events in Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships. He was three times European Champion on his best horse Deister. He is the brother of Alwin Schockemöhle, another leading German rider.
Heinz Pollay was a German horse rider who competed in dressage from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two golds and one bronze.
Benjamin Richard Maher MBE is a British show jumper. He represented Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2009 European Championships in Windsor, 2012 London Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics. He won the team jumping gold at the London Olympics with Team GB, their first team jumping gold medal for 60 years, an individual gold for Great Britain at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and team jumping gold again at the 2024 Paris Summer Games. That win tied him with three-day eventer Richard Meade and dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin as the most successful British Olympic equestrians in gold medals won.
Edward Gal is a Dutch dressage rider. He and the stallion Totilas, were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, becoming the first horse-rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals at a single FEI World Games. Going into the 2010 Games, they had amassed multiple world-record scores in international competition, leading one American journalist to call them "rock stars in the horse world". After the World Equestrian Games, Totilas was sold to German trainer Paul Schockemöhle. Gal continues to be successful training and competing dressage horses at the international level. Despite the success, he has been criticised to be harsh trainer who creates stressed and fearful horses.
Geoff Billington is a British showjumper who has represented Great Britain on a number of occasions including during the European and World Championships and at the Olympics. As of Jan 2010, Geoff was ranked 13th on the Team GBR list.
The 2010 Longines Royal International Horse Show was that year's edition of the Royal International Horse Show, the British official show jumping competition at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead. It was held as CSIO 5* and CDI 5*.
The World Dressage Masters – shortened WDM – is an international dressage series held since 2009. All events of the series are held as CDI 5*, the highest level of dressage events.
The 2011 Longines Royal International Horse Show was the 2011 edition of the Royal International Horse Show, the British official show jumping horse show at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead. It was held as CSIO 5* and CDI 5*.
Abdullah Waleed Al Sharbatly is a Saudi Arabian equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping. He is mostly known because of his win of the individual silver medal at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games. He was part of the Saudi team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Charlotte Susan Jane Dujardin is a British dressage rider, equestrian, and writer. A multiple World and Olympic champion, Dujardin has been described as the dominant dressage rider of her era. In 2014 she held the complete set of available individual elite dressage titles: the individual Olympic freestyle, World freestyle and Grand Prix Special, World Cup individual dressage and European freestyle, and Grand Prix Special titles. Dujardin was the first rider to hold this complete set of titles at the same time.
The 2012 Longines Royal International Horse Show was the 2012 edition of the Royal International Horse Show, the British official show jumping horse show at the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead. It was held as CSIO 5*.
Sophie Wells is an English para-equestrian who won three medals at the 2012 London Paralympics, three at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, two at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and two at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Anna Power is a British equestrian sportswoman who competes in the sport of show jumping. She is based in Clevedon, North Somerset. In 2010, Edwards won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup and was part of the Great Britain team that won the 2010 FEI Nations Cup of Austria.
Litta Soheila Sohi, is an Iranian dressage rider. She first tried riding at age four in Iran. At age nine she began attending riding classes in Denmark, and she started training in dressage in 2002 in Rome, Italy. She started riding professionally in 2002. She is the first dressage rider to represent Iran in international dressage competitions, doing so at Hickstead Equestrian Centre in 2014, as recorded on the FEI. She also competed in CDI3 Intermediate 1 and CDI3 Prix St-Gorges at Saumur in September 2014. Litta is a member of British Dressage. She competed in Equestrian at the 2018 Asian Games and finished in 6th place.
The team of the Olympic Federation of Ireland, which competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, represented athletes from both the Republic of Ireland and those from Northern Ireland who choose it instead of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the team's twenty-second appearance at the Summer Olympics, having attended every edition since 1924 except the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany.
Andrea John is a German born dressage rider competing for Austria. Andrea represented Austria at the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. She competed at three European Championships; in Verden 2001, Hickstead 2003 and at the 2013 European Championships in Herning.
Larissa Pauluis is a Belgian Olympic dressage rider. She competed at two World Championships for Young Dressage Horses and competed at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, representing Belgium.
The 2003 FEI Open European Dressage Championships, was the 23rd edition of the European Dressage Championship. It was held at The All England Jumping Course in Hickstead, Great Britain, from 13 August to 17 August 2003. The 2003 European Dressage Championships was the first open European Championship, including riders from the US, Australia, Canada and Japan. Germany won the golden team medal, as well as the individual gold medal won by Ulla Salzgeber. Great Britain won a team medal for the second time in history during the European Dressage Championships, the first medal was won in 1993.
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