Richard Davison

Richard Davison medal table
Davison at the 2012 Olympics
Dressage riding
United Kingdom
European championships
silver	1993	Dressage, team (with Master JCB )
bronze	2003	Dressage, team (with Ballaseyr Royale )

Richard Davison (born September 20, 1955 in Nottingham ) is a British dressage rider and Olympic participant .

Athletic career

Davison got his first pony at the age of nine . After school he worked briefly in his father's PR agency before deciding to take up equestrianism. At that time still interested in hunting riding , eventing rider Sandra Pearson-Adams sent him to a dressage course with Barbara Slane-Fleming, where he discovered his enthusiasm for dressage riding . Lady Bamford then bought him the horse Master JCB , with which he won team silver at the European Championships in 1993. A decade later, he won team bronze at the European Championships in Hickstead . Davison has ridden in four Olympic Games so far, most recently in the 2012 London Games.

successes

• Summer Olympics :
  • 1996, Atlanta : 8th place with the team and 21st place in the individual ranking with Askari
  • 2000, Sydney : 8th place with Askari with the team and 35th place in the individual ranking
  • 2004, Athens : with Ballaseyr Royale 7th place with the team and 22nd place in the individual ranking
  • 2012, London : with Artemis 26th place in the individual evaluation

• World Equestrian Games :
  • 1998, Rome: 8th place with the team and 32nd place in the individual ranking with Askari
  • 2002, Jerez de la Frontera: 10th place with the team and 28th place in the individual ranking with Ballaseyr Royale

• European Championships :
  • 1993, Lipica: with Prego 2nd place with the team and 23rd place in the individual ranking
  • 1999, Arnhem: 5th place with Askari with the team and 12th place in the individual ranking
  • 2001, Verden: with Askari 19th place in the individual ranking
  • 2003, Hickstead: 3rd place with the team and 14th place in the individual ranking with Ballaseyr Royale

• World Cup Finals :
  • 2003, Gothenburg: 7th place with Ballaseyr Royale
  • 2011, Leipzig : 10th place with Artemis
  • 2012, 's-Hertogenbosch : 5th place with Artemis

activities

Davison is a partner with the British Horse Society and a regular Horse & Hound columnist. He is also a member of the FEI Dressage Committee and Vice President of the international dressage rider club. He trains with Conrad Schumacher .

Private

Davison is married to the dressage rider Gillian. The couple has two sons: Thomas and Joseph , who are both successful in jumping saddles.

Horses

• Master JCB , owner: Lady Bamford
• Ballaseyr Royale (1990–2017), father: Picandt
• Hiscox Deveraux (* 1985), KWPN , father: Waganaar, owner: Richard & Gillian Davison
• Hiscox Jyko (* 1991), KWPN , father: El Corrona, owner: Gillian Davison
• Hiscox Rodolpho (* 1993), Oldenburg , father: Ramiro, owner: Gillian Davison
• Hiscox Karachi (* 1993), Hanoverian , father: Warkant, owner: Gillian Davison
• Hiscox Artemis (* 1999, original name: Foto Tyme ), bay Westphalian gelding, father: Florestan, mother's father: Delphi, ridden by Philine von Bremen from 2013

Web links

Commons : Richard Davison  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Davison Equestrian (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} FEI short biography
2. ↑ Horse & Hound - Richard Davison, British dressage rider (2010) (English)
3. ↑ Richard Davison's Former Olympic Horse Is Dead , globalquestriannews.com, May 2, 2017
4. ↑ FEI horse database: Artemis
5. ↑ Davison's Olympic horse Hiscox Artemis sold ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PferdeSport International, January 25, 2013