Equestrian Team GBR competes across a number of disciplines and has enjoyed great success on the World and European stage, winning many medals over the years. From 2000 to 2013 Team GBR has won:
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147 medals across dressage, eventing and showjumping at youth level
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124 medals in para-equestrian dressage
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44 senior medals in the Olympic sports
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20 senior medals in the non-Olympic sports
The Olympic Disciplines
The Olympic Games includes three equestrian disciplines; dressage, eventing and showjumping and the Paralympic Games features para-equestrian dressage. The British equestrian teams won a total 39 medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Athens (2004), Beijing (2008) and London (2012). Dressage, eventing, para-equestrian dressage and showjumping also compete at European Championships and the World Equestrian Games (which falls inbetween the two European Championships and two years out from an Olympic Games).
> Learn more about British dressage riders
> Learn more about British eventers
> Learn more about our para-equestrian dressage athletes
> Learn more about British showjumpers
The Non-Olympic Disciplines
Equestrian Team GBR competes outside the Olympic arena in four other internationally recognised disciplines: driving, endurance, reining and vaulting. These disciplines compete at both European and World level. In 2009 reining won team bronze and vaulting has since gone on to gain medals at senior and junior level on both the European and World stage.
> Learn more about driving
> Learm more about British endurance riders
> Learn more about reining
> Learn more about Britain's vaulters
Equestrian Team GBR is also represented at World and European Championships in the sport of Para-Equestrian Driving.
> Learn more about para-equestrian driving
The Youth Teams
The three Olympic disciplines (dressage, eventing and showjumping) also compete Pony, Junior and Young Rider teams at European Championships each year.
> Learn more about our youth team successes
The World Class Programme
The World Class Programme is comprised of World Class Performance, World Class Development and the Equine Pathway. The Programmes are generously supported by the Exchequer and National Lottery funding via UK Sport. This website will also bring you news of the work in these programmes to support our quest for international success at the highest levels in equestrian sport.
> Learn more about the World Class Programme