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List Of Australian Equestrians
This a list of Australian equestrians across all disciplines. B * Kevin Bacon (1932–2020) * Mervyn Bennet (born 1944) * Emma Booth (born 1991) * Grace Bowman (born 1990) * Georgia Bruce (born 1981) * Olivia Bunn (born 1979) * Chris Burton (born 1981) C * Brien Cobcroft (1934–2010) D * Hannah Dodd (born 1992) * Phillip Dutton (born 1963) F * Rosalie Fahey * Joann Formosa (born 1961) * Clayton Fredericks (born 1967) * Lucinda Fredericks (born 1965) G * David Green (born 1960) * Sam Griffiths (born 1972) H * Mary Hanna (born 1954) * Julia Hargreaves (born 1986) * Sue Hearn (born 1956) * Julie Higgins (born 1958) * Marita Hird (born 1971) * Andrew Hoy (born 1959) J * Sharon Jarvis (born 1978) * Vaughn Jefferis (born 1961) * Sonja Johnson (born 1967) * Megan Jones (born 1976) K * Scott Keach (born 1965) * Nicole Kullen (1980–2018) L * Neale Lavis (1930–2019) * Kelly Layne (born 1975) * Laurie Lever (born 1947) * Sue-Ellen Lovett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equestrians
Equestrianism (from Latin , , , 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, Driving (horse), driving, and Equestrian vaulting, vaulting. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working animal, working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises, and animals in sport, competitive sport. Overview of equestrian activities Horses are horse training, trained and ridden for practical working purposes, such as in Mounted police, police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in Horse#Sport, competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, equestrian vaulting, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving (horse), driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hanna
Mary Hanna (née Sutherland) (born 1 December 1954) is an Australian equestrian. She has represented Australia at six Olympic Games in the equestrian discipline of dressage (Atlanta 1996 with Mosaic, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 with Limbo, London 2012 with Sancette, Rio 2016 with Boogie Woogie and Tokyo 2020 with Calanta). Personal Hanna was born on 1 December 1954 in Melbourne, Australia. She attended Macarthur State School in Victoria before going to high school at Presbyterian Ladies' College. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her husband is Rob Hanna, Equestrian Australia chef d'equipe. Equestrian Hanna is an equestrian dressage competitor. She has been coached by Kyra Kyrklund and Clemens Dierks. Currently she is coached by Patrik Kittel. Her primary training base is in Gisborne, Victoria , Australia. Hanna competed at the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics. In 1996, she finished twenty-fourth in the individual e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Layne
Kelly Layne (born 14 May 1975) is an Australian Dressage rider and trainer. She planned on qualifying to represent her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. However, Layne was unable to compete in the final qualifying event due to an injury suffered by her horse, Udon P, forcing her to withdraw. While born in Australia, Layne is currently based in Wellington, Florida. Layne also helped found her own riding team, "Dream Team Dressage". Throughout her career, Layne has scored an average of 67.491 (150 classes) per competition with her highest score being a 76.613. In dressage, above a 60 is considered satisfactory. In addition to riding Layne also helps to advise clients with finding horses and one of Layne's horses represented Japan in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Early life Layne grew up in Queensland, Australia. As the daughter of a Helen Antsee, a Grand Prix rider and FEI judge, Layne was exposed to riding from a young age. Layne had decided that she wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neale Lavis
Neale John Lavis (11 June 1930 – 6 October 2019) was an Australian equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a team gold medal in eventing at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and a silver medal in individual eventing. He also participated at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, but did not win any medals there. He later became involved with a cattle and racehorse stud in Braidwood, which produced Just A Dash, the winner of the 1981 Melbourne Cup, and Strawberry Road, the 1982/83 Racehorse of the Year. After the Rome Olympics, he married Velma; they had four children. Lavis was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1989, received a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1999, and received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000. References External links *Neale Lavisat the National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia, in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Kullen
Nicole Cassandra Kullen (15 April 1980 – 6 August 2018) was an Australian equestrian paralympian. Personal life In August 1996, Kullen contracted meningococcal meningitis sepsis. Kullen spent the next six weeks on life support in an induced coma. After coming out of the coma, she spent a further six months in hospital recovering from the illness and undergoing rehabilitation. Due to the illness both her legs were amputated, giving her restricted arm movement, limited strength and no function in both hands and wrists. Her internal organs continued to cause health complications due to the effect the illness had on her organs. In 2000, Kullen lost all function in both kidneys and relied on peritoneal dialysis four times a day. In 2003, her son Kyle was born prematurely, but he later died following complications of the birth. Career In 2000, Kullen started competing in dressage competitions with the Equestrian Federation of Australia for able-bodied riders and the RDAA for riders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Keach
Scott Keach (born 21 April 1965) is an Australian equestrian who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the three-day event. In 2016, he was again named to compete at the Olympics, this time in the show jumping. The 28-year gap between Olympics was a record for Australia. Originally from Currency Creek in South Australia, Keach now lives in Ocala, Florida. References External linksProfileat the International Federation for Equestrian Sports The International Federation for Equestrian Sports (, FEI) is the international governing body of equestrian sports. The FEI headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. An FEI code of conduct protects the welfare of the horses from physical abu ... 1965 births Australian male equestrians Living people Olympic equestrians for Australia Equestrians at the 1988 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Equestrians at the 2016 Summer Olympics 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Jones (equestrian)
Megan Jones (born 6 November 1976) is one of Australia's top event riders, a Silver Medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Jones began riding at the age of 5, continued through her early years in Pony Club before hitting the international scene in 2003 at the World Cup Final. In 2005, she won Melbourne International Three Day Event riding three star on Kirby Park Irish Jester, then later in the same year won the four star at the 2005 Adelaide Horse Trials on the same mount and a second in the two star competition on another. Chosen to compete in the 2006 World Equestrian Games, she was on the bronze medal winning Australian Event Team, and finished 16th individually. Jones won a silver medal in Beijing in 2008 riding Kirby Park Irish Jester in the team event, alongside countrymen Clayton Fredericks, his wife Lucinda Fredericks, Shane Rose and Sonja Johnson Sonja Johnson (born 14 December 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) is an Australian equestrian The word eque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Johnson
Sonja Johnson (born 14 December 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) is an Australian equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ... who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as part of the three-day eventing team. The team consisted of Megan Jones, Clayton Fredericks, Lucinda Fredericks and Shane Rose She grew up on a farm and says she began riding at the age of three to help muster cattle on the property. In 2006, she won the Melbourne 3-Day-Event on the horse Ringwould Jaguar. References Australian Olympic Committee profile Australian event riders Australian female equestrians Equestrians at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic equestrians for Australia Olympic silver medalists for Australia Living people 1967 births Olympic medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughn Jefferis
Vaughn Jefferis (born 20 May 1961 in Huntly) is a New Zealand horseman who won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games. Initially competing in showjumping Jefferis switched to Eventing in 1990 and had immediate success, being part of the gold medal team at the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm riding ''Enterprise''. Jefferis purchased ''Bounce'' in 1994 and rode the horse for the remainder of his international career. They won the world individual title in 1994 at The Hague, a bronze medal in the team event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the team gold at the 1998 World Championships in Rome. Their last event was at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ... but they did not complete the event. Biography Unlike the majority of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Jarvis
Sharon Jarvis (born 31 October 1978) is an Australian para-equestrian. She represented Australia at the three Summer Paralympics - 2008 Beijing, 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo . Personal Jarvis was born on 31 October 1978. At the age of seven, she was diagnosed with bone cancer (Ewing sarcoma) in her left femur and given an only 20 per cent chance of surviving. She survived the cancer through twelve months of chemotherapy and radiation therapy but a year later broke the same leg affected by cancer. This led to numerous operations and skin grafts and as a result she has severely limited movement on her left side. She operates a pony stud called Applewood in Donnybrook, Western Australia. Equestrian Jarvis began riding at the age of three and her parents purchased her a pony when she was four. In 2006, she competed in her first para-equestrian event and is classed as a Grade III rider. Her first international event was the 2007 FEI World Para Dressage Championships in England wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Hoy
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in List of countries where English is an official language, English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the el, Ἀνδρέας, ''Andreas'', itself related to grc, ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Version, King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew. Popularity Australia In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Hird
Marita Hird (born 25 February 1971) is a Paralympic equestrian competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Mixed Dressage – Freestyle grade III event. Personal Hird was born in Kew, Victoria. She was a jockey until 1993 when she fell from her horse during a race. Hird broke her neck in three places and was advised that she was an incomplete quadriplegic. However, after nine months Hird learned to walk again and began riding horses as a form of therapy. Sporting career After being encouraged to compete in dressage, Hird won bronze at the World Championships in Aarhus Denmark. She went on to win bronze in the Mixed Dressage - Freestyle grade III event at the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney. Hird also represented Australia at the 2004 Paralympics where she just missed out on a medal. At the 2006 Pacific Rim Championships, held in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
