Dinja Van Liere
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Dinja van Liere (born 16 August 1990) is a Dutch
dressage Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined b ...
rider. She competed at the European Dressage Championships in Hagen 2021 and was the traveling reserve for the Dutch team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Van Liere represented the Dutch team at the
2024 Olympic Games ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summer ...
in Paris, becoming fourth in the team competition and fourth in the individual competition with her horse Hermes, scoring a personal best of 88.432% in the Grand Prix Freestyle, only half a percentage to the bronze medal.


Equestrian career

Van Liere started riding at a young age and became stable rider at Stal Hexagon. In 2012 she became National Indoor Champion in the M2 level and the same year she won a bronze medal at the World Championships for Young Horses in Verden, Germany. The years after she rode successfully in the Grand Prix under 25, but her breakthrough came in 2021 when she competed two horses Haute Couture and Hermes in the international Grand Prix. She was named to represent The Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Tokyo but after a technical mistake in the owners' registration in the database of the FEI, she was not allowed to compete that horse. With her other horse Haute Couture Van Liere was named as traveling reserve. A month later she was selected by the Dutch Equestrian Federation to compete at the European Championships in Hagen.


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* Living people 1990 births Dutch female equestrians Dutch dressage riders 21st-century Dutch women Equestrians at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic equestrians for the Netherlands {{Netherlands-equestrian-bio-stub