Happy International Women’s Day!
By Equestrian Life
Equestrian is one of the few sports where men and women compete against one another, and some of the world’s best riders are women!
Here, we take look at some of the sport’s current leading ladies (of course, with so many top female riders across all disciplines it’s impossible to cover them all here!)…
© FEI/Christophe Tanière
Isabell Werth holds three of the top five spaces in the FEI World Dressage Rankings (and two of those are with mares, Weihegold and Bella Rose)! In fact, nine of the top ten ranking spaces at present are held by women.
© Stefano Grasso/GCT
One of the world’s top showjumpers and winner of the first ever Longines Super Grand Prix, Edwina Tops-Alexander.
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Laura Graves, the number two dressage rider in the world.
© Michelle Terlato
Great Britain’s Rosalind Canter, the 2018 WEG gold medal winner and number two in the FEI World Eventing Rankings.
© FEI/Liz Gregg
American showjumper Beezie Madden, who is the only female in the current top ten of the Longines Rankings.
© Liz Gregg/FEI
British Paralympic rider Sophie Wells, the number one para dressage rider in the world.
© FEI/M.Chrzan
American showjumper Laura Kraut is up there with the best of them!
© Kit Houghton
NZ eventer Jonelle Price won multiple CCI4* events last year, including Badminton.
© Michelle Terlato
German star Ingrid Klimke is one of the world’s top eventers.
© FEI/Liz Gregg
Charlotte Dujardin holds a number of dressage World Records with Valegro and is now on the rise with Mt St John Freestyle.
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