Megan Benjamin

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Megan Benjamin (born January 22, 1988 in California ) is an American vaulting athlete .

Benjamin tried gymnastics and ice hockey as a child until she started vaulting at the Mt. Eden Vaulting Club in 1997. Her first CVI victory was in Saratoga in 2005. The 2006 World Equestrian Games were the first FEI championships in which Benjamin participated. She won the gold medal in the individual evaluation and thus became the first non-German world champion in vaulting . With her team, Free Artists Mt. Eden (FAME) , she achieved the silver medal. With the 2006 season, Benjamin temporarily ended her vaulting career in order to concentrate on her studies at Cornell University . In 2008 she decided to return to vaulting to support her team at the World Championships in Brno . On Benjamin's horse Leonardo , the group won the bronze medal. Benjamin is currently the most successful vaulting athlete in the USA and three-time US champion. Your trainer Emma Garrod Seely is "United States Equestrian Federation Coach of the Year". Her horse Faronia (Ronin) is a 1.75 m tall Dutch warmblood gelding . She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in history in May 2010. Since autumn 2010 she has been studying Spanish (major), French and German at Santa Clara University .

successes

Megan Benjamin has achieved the following victories and placements (if not stated otherwise, in the individual ranking):

World championships
  • 2010 : 5th place
  • 2006 : gold
  • 2004: 9th place
European championships
  • 2009: 7th place
CVI victories

In 2012 she and Blake Dahlgren took third place at the CHIO in Aachen in the pas de deux .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CHIO Aachen: Germany wins the Nations Cup on July 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Benjamin, Megan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American vaulting woman
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH California , United States