Charlotte Dujardin Charlotte is an elite British dressage

Charlotte Dujardin

Charlotte is an elite British dressage rider, triple gold medallist at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics games, former European champion, world champion and holder of all three world records in the sport of dressage.

Charlotte Born in Enfield, Charlotte was brought up in Herefordshire and started riding when she was two years old. By sixteen years Charlotte, with support of her family had won the horse of the year show competition 4 times, and was a winner at Hickstead on 3 occasions. After further encouragement from her trainer, Debbie Thomas, Charlotte took up dressage with a horse brought from her grandmother’s inheritance. .

Charlotte In February 2007, she had some lessons with Carl Herter and after ten days at his yard he gives her job as a groom at his yard in Newent, Gloucestershire, where she has since remained. From the start, Charlotte was asked to bring on the novice warmblood gelding Valero, owned by Hester and Roly Luard with the intention of that horse being ridden by Hester.

Charlotte However, after competing in the first dressage grand prix event in 2011, Charlotte with Valero became part of the successful team, who won gold in a European dressage champions companionships competition, at Rotterdam and then began their brilliant rise.

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Charlotte https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. Uk. F 8 qxos. X 0 Little video of her doing her freestyle

Charlotte and Valero were selected to represent Great Brittan and London 2012 Olympic games. In the first round the team set a new Olympic record of 83. 784%. On 7 August 2012 the pair were members of the team, which won the gold medal in the team dressage event. Two days later, in a routine which included Land of Hope and Glory, The great escape and the chimes of Big Ben, the pair won the gold medal in the individual dressage event with a score of 90. 089%.

Charlotte A global superstar was born … In December 2012 Charlotte, again riding Valero, won the world cup free style event held at Olympia with a score of 87. 875%. On 19 of April 2015 in Las Vegas, Charlotte and Valero won the FEI world cup with a score of 14. 169%. On the final day of the competition she won 4 consecutive world titles making them the only competition pair to have ever held this.

Charlotte and Valero also achieved and individual gold medallist the 2016 Rio Olympics in dressage freestyle, making her the first British women to retain and individual Olympic title and briefly the most successful female British Olympian in the history of the games before Laura Trott beat her record. Charlotte and Valero set a new Olympic dressage score of 93. 857% in the grand prix freestyle and also won a team silver medal.

Charlotte I love dressage and I would love to ride at Olympia Charlotte has given me inspiration and I do lots of practice just to be this good at riding. This is my pony Nellie.

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