Our teams
British Dressage selects riders to compete on the world stage at pony, junior, young rider, senior and para equestrian levels. Dressage is an Olympic and Paralympic sport with the next games taking place on home soil in London in 2012.
2010 is a WEG year for our senior and para-equestrian athletes who will travel to Kentucky for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 25 September - 10 October alongside our eventing, show jumping, vaulting, reining, endurance and reining teams.
Our pony riders are aimed at the FEI Pony European Championships, taking place 27 July - 1 August 2010 at Bishop Burton, East Yorkshire, while junior and young rider teams will compete at their European Championhips in Kronberg, Germany 20-25 July 2010.
Biographies
25 year old Laura Bechtolsheimer has enjoyed a phenomenal last 12 months, partnering her and her father’s 15 year old Michellino gelding Mistral Hojris to team silver and an individual bronze medal at the Alltech FEI European Dressage Championships 2009 - the best British performance at a European Championship for 16 years.
The partnership set new heights by becoming the first ever British dressage rider to score over 80% and together they hold the British International grand prix record in all three classes – the grand prix, the grand prix special and the grand prix freestyle. Read more in Laura’s official BD biography here.
Find out about our most successful dressage riders: their road to success, whether they are superstitious, what their favourite tipple is and much more. For the low-down on the top 10 riders in the British Dressage Grand Prix rankings, click on their names below to view their official BD biographies:
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Emma Hindle | updated July 2009 |
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Carl Hester | updated August 2010 |
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updated August 2010 | |
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Maria Eilberg | updated August 2010 |
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Fiona Bigwood | updated August 2010 |
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Jane Gregory | updated July 2009 |
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Steph Croxford | updated December 2009 |
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Michael Eilberg | updated August 2010 |
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Judy Harvey | updated October 2009 |
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Nicola Buchanan | updated September 2010 |
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Richard Davison |
updated February 2010 |
Read about the amazing life stories of Britain’s top paralympic riders. They are members of the Paralympic World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) squad from which the team members are selected to represent Britain. Click the names and be inspired:
Click to view rider biographies:
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Sophie Christiansen MBE | updated August 2009 |
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Deb Criddle | updated November 2008 |
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Anne Dunham MBE | updated August 2010 |
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Lee Pearson MBE OBE CBE | updated September 2009 |
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Ricky Balshaw | updated April 2010 |
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Jo Pitt | updated August 2009 |
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Simon Laurens | updated August 2009 |
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Felicity Coulthard | updated November 2008 |
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Sophie Wells | updated August 2009 |
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Emma Sheardown | updated July 2010 |
