2016 Rio Dressage

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Canadian Dressage Athletes Set to Start at Rio

Canadian dressage athletes, Megan Lane from Loretto, ON and Belinda Trussell from Stouffville, ON are ready to get underway at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, BRA. Dressage competition at the Games begins on Aug. 10 and 11 with the Grand Prix, followed by the Grand Prix Special on Aug. 12, which […]
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Olympic Dressage Preview

You could hardly have scripted it better when Great Britain’s Dressage riders scooped Olympic team gold on home turf at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park. A day after their jumpers topped the team podium for the first time in 60 years it was the turn of Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte […]
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US Dressage Team Earns Berth in Rio

The United States’ Dressage Team’s gold-medal win in the team event at the Pan American Games on Sunday earned them an automatic qualifying spot for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sabine Schut-Kery, Kimberly Herslow, Laura Graves and Steffen Peters combined scores totalled 460.506, ahead of Canada’s silver medal effort (454.938 pts) and Brazil, which took the […]
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Rio 2016 Olympic Games Dressage Ground Jury Long List

The FEI has announced the long list from which the members of the Ground Jury officiating at the Rio 2016 Olympic Dressage events will be drawn. The 12 highly experienced 5* judges that make up the long list are Maribel Alonso (MEX), Susanne Baarup (DEN), Stephen Clarke (GBR), Annette Fransen-Iacobaeus (SWE), Andrew Gardner (GBR), Peter […]