Charlotte Dujardin

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Charlotte Dujardin with Valegro at the 2012 Olympics
Charlotte Dujardin with Valegro at the 2012 Olympics

Dressage riding

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain
Olympic Summer Games
gold 2016 Single (with Valegro )
gold 2012 Single (with Valegro )
gold 2012 Team (with Valegro )
World Equestrian Games
gold 2014 Singles, Grand Prix Spécial (with Valegro )
gold 2014 Singles, Grand Prix Freestyle (with Valegro )
silver 2014 Team (with Valegro )
bronze 2018 Team (with freestyle )
bronze 2018 Singles, Grand Prix Spécial (with freestyle )
European championships
gold 2011 Team (with Valegro )
gold 2013 Singles, Grand Prix Spécial (with Valegro )
gold 2013 Singles, Grand Prix Freestyle (with Valegro )
bronze 2013 Team (with Valegro )
gold 2015 Singles, Grand Prix Freestyle (with Valegro )
gold 2015 Singles, Grand Prix Spécial (with Valegro )
silver 2015 Team (with Valegro )

Charlotte Dujardin , CBE (born July 13, 1985 in Enfield ) is a British dressage rider and individual Olympic champion. Together with her gelding Valegro , she holds the percentage records in the three most difficult dressage tests .

Career

In their youth, Charlotte Dujardin and her older sister rode in pony competitions. As a pony rider, she won the pony competitions at both the Horse of the Year Show and the Royal International Horse Show . She gained her first experience in dressage riding with the trainer Debbie Thomas. At the age of thirteen she was allowed to ride a horse that had been trained at Grand Prix level for the first time .

At the age of 16 she finished her school career and subsequently worked as a “ working pupil ” (roughly equivalent to an intern) with the dressage rider Judith “Judy” Harvey, where she stayed for several years. During this time she began to train Fernandez , a three-year-old horse acquired by her mother. She also got the chance to ride Wow Voyager here . With this she was nominated as reserve rider for the European Young Rider Championships in 2006.

In February 2007 Dujardin denied a teaching unit with Carl Hester . He offered her to help out with him in the stable for ten days. Since then she has been working in Hester's stable. Also in 2007 she won the national championship for seven year old dressage horses with Fernandez . In 2010 she won the British Championships at Prix ​​St. Georges level with Valegro .

In 2011 Charlotte Dujardin contested her first season at Grand Prix level. In January 2011 she competed for the first time in a national Grand Prix de Dressage, in Addington Manor near Buckingham , and won it with Valegro - which is made available to her by Carl Hester - with a score of over 74 percent. In March 2011 she won her first international Grand Prix dressage in Vidauban with Valegro . In July 2011 she started at the CDIO 5 * as part of the CHIO Aachen . Here she reached second place in the team standings with the British team. In Hickstead she won the Grand Prix Spécial of the local CDI 5 * tournament .

Because of her success she was nominated for the British team at the European Championships in dressage in Rotterdam . Here she won team gold with Valegro , was sixth in the Grand Prix Spécial and ninth in the freestyle .

At the end of the year she took part in the Olympia London International Horse Show with Valegro . Here she won the Grand Prix de Dressage with a personal best: victory with 81.043 percent. In the World Cup there she was second with 83.700%.

At the Horses & Dreams tournament in Hagen aTW in April 2012 she set a new world record with Valegro . With 88.022%, it overtook Edward Gal and Totilas' record as the best result in the Grand Prix Spécial. In contrast to Gal's record, Dujardin's record was achieved in the shortened Grand Prix Spécial specially created for the 2012 Olympic Games . This was abolished at the end of 2012.

She reached the peak of her career in front of a home crowd: after winning gold as the best team rider with the British dressage team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she also became an individual Olympic champion. With Valegro she won with a lead of almost two percent.

Dujardin and Valegro had their first joint tournament appearance since the Olympic Games at the Olympia London International Horse Show. Here they achieved a result of 84.447 percent in the Grand Prix - a new world record. A year later, with Valegro , she set a new world record in the Grand Prix Freestyle (93.975 percent) and is thus the world record holder in the three most difficult dressage tests. At the European Championships 2013 Dujardin won both individual gold medals with Valegro , with the team she won bronze.

In April 2014 she took part in a World Cup final for the first time: she won the final in Lyon with 92.179 percent. The day before she had set a new record in the Grand Prix, with Valegro she achieved a result of 87.129 percent. At the Olympia London International Horse Show 2014 Dujardin and Valegro topped their records in the Grand Prix and in the Grand Prix Freestyle again (87.460%, 94.300%).

At the European Championships in 2015 Dujardin again won two gold medals in the individual ranking, but in the freestyle only with a wafer-thin lead over Kristina Bröring-Sprehe and Desperados FRH . Then Dujardin Valegro allowed an almost eleven month break from the tournament and only started again with him a month before the Olympic Games. At this last test in Hartpury, both won the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro secured the team silver medal as the strongest couple in their UK team. In the individual evaluation it was enough for both to win the gold medal again (with a score of 93.857 percent).

At the age of only 14, Valegro was retired from tournament sport at the Olympia London International Horse Show in December 2016. However, the gelding should continue to be ridden and used in demonstrations.

In the following year, Dujardin presented Carl Hester's future championship horse Delicato at the first international tournaments and, together with Hester, continued the training of her future hope, which she had taken on in 2015: For the first time in April 2018, Charlotte Dujardin presented the mare Freestyle at an international tournament. They won Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle there, the latter with over 81 percent. Also at the following three CDI tournaments in Great Britain, both were victorious in the tests. At the 2018 World Equestrian Games , Dujardin and Freestyle were able to repeat these performances against top international competition: In the Grand Prix, 77.764% of the British team helped win the bronze medal, in the Grand Prix Spécial 81.489 percent also brought the couple the individual bronze medal.

In the Grand Prix of the European Championships 2019 , Dujardin initially had the second-best individual result with over 81 percent. However, blood was found on the left flank of her horse Freestyle , which led to her being excluded from the competition.

In addition to her tournament career, Dujardin also takes on the dressage training of eventing riders like Sam Griffiths or the six-time Olympian Mark Todd .

From September 2013 to January 2016, Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro were world number one without interruption. She first held this rank in September 2012.

Horses

Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro at the 2014 World Equestrian Games

Current competition horses:

Former competition horses:

  • Valegro (* 2002), brown KWPN Wallach, father: Negro, father of mother: Gerschwin; said goodbye to sport
  • Uthopia (* 2001), bay KWPN stallion, father: Metall, mother's father: Inspector, temporarily ridden by Charlotte Dujardin from 2013; said goodbye to sport
  • Fernandez (* 2000, original name: Forkus), chestnut gelding, father: Florestan, mother's father: Weinburg, ridden by Cathrine Rasmussen from autumn 2011

successes

  • Summer Olympics :
    • 2012, London : 1st place in the individual ranking with Valegro , 1st place with the team
    • 2016, Rio de Janeiro : 1st place in the individual ranking with Valegro , 2nd place with the team
  • World Championships:
    • 2014, Normandy : 1st place with Valegro in the Grand Prix Spécial and in the Grand Prix Freestyle, 2nd place with the team
    • 2018, Tryon : 3rd place with freestyle in the Grand Prix Spécial, 3rd place with the team
  • European Championships :
    • 2011, Rotterdam : with Valegro 1st place with the team, 6th place in the Grand Prix Spécial, 9th place in the Grand Prix Freestyle
    • 2013, Herning : 3rd place with the team with Valegro , 1st place in the Grand Prix Spécial, 1st place in the Grand Prix Freestyle
    • 2015, Aachen : with Valegro 2nd place with the team, 1st place in the Grand Prix Spécial, 1st place in the Grand Prix Freestyle
  • World Cup Finals :

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Dujardin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N8
  2. ^ FEI equestrian biographies: Charlotte Dujardin
  3. ↑ a b c Charlotte Dujardin: Carl Hester's Golden Girl , Carole Mortimer / British Dressage (English)
  4. ↑ Carl's Team: Charlotte Dujardin ( Memento from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Dujardin and Crisp Take First Titles at 2010 British Dressage Championships , Eurodressage, September 10, 2010 (English)
  6. ↑ a b Charlotte Dujardin in the FEI results database
  7. ↑ Team ranking CDIO 5 * Aachen 2011
  8. ↑ London Olympic Tournament: Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro with more than 80 percent , St. Georg , December 14, 2011
  9. ^ Result Grand Prix Spécial CDI 4 *, Horses & Dreams 2012
  10. ↑ Dujardin and Valegro Come Back to Break World Record in 2012 CDI-W London Grand Prix , eurodressage.com, December 17, 2012 (English)
  11. ↑ Hartpury: 90 percent victory for Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro with new freestyle music - with video , St. Georg, July 10, 2016
  12. ↑ Valegro no longer goes to tournaments and has retired , Reiter Revue International, September 17, 2016
  13. ↑ 9 things you never knew about Mount St John Freestyle - aka 'Mrs Valegro' , Polly Bryan / Horse & Hound, June 20, 2018
  14. ↑ Jan Tönjes: Charlotte Dujardin disqualified after Grand Prix ride. August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  15. ^ FEI Dressage Rules. Retrieved August 21, 2019 . , Art. 430.7.6.2
  16. ↑ Our Team: Dressage Trainer Charlotte Dujardin , marktoddeventing.com
  17. ↑ World rankings dressage
  18. ↑ FEI horse database: Mount St John Freestyle
  19. ^ FEI horse database: Valegro
  20. ↑ FEI horse database: Uthopia
  21. ^ FEI horse database: Fernandez
personal data
SURNAME Dujardin, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Enfield