Valentina Truppa

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Valentina Truppa with Chablis (2015)

Valentina Truppa (born March 18, 1986 in Milan , Lombardy ) is an Italian dressage rider .

Career

She started riding at the age of six and competed for the first time at the age of 12. In 2011 she won the world cup tournament in Frankfurt with Eremo del Castegno . She was the first Italian dressage rider to win such a test. In 2012 she started as a single rider at the Olympic Games in London . At the dressage tournament in Arezzo, Truppa's climbing horse fell and buried her under itself. She suffered severe head injuries, which made her condition critical but not life threatening.

Truppa lives in Asti . Her father is the dressage rider Enzo Truppa, with whom she runs the Centro Equestre Monferrato.

Horses (excerpt)

  • Don Rico
  • chablis
  • Eremo del Castegno
  • Hot Spot (* 2008), Hanoverian mold

successes

  • 2011: 1st place, World Cup in Frankfurt with Eremo del Castegno
  • 2012: 2nd place, World Cup tournament in Lyon with Eremo del Castegno ; 3rd place, World Cup tournament in Stuttgart with Eremo del Castegno

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentina Truppa seriously injured after a horror fall (6/2015)
personal data
SURNAME Truppa, Valentina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Lombardy