Charlotte Dujardin

Nick Name

: N/A

Born

:13 Jul,1985

Age

:34 years, 1 months

Location

:Enfield, England, United Kingdom

Website

: http://www.charlottedujardin.co.uk/

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About Charlotte Dujardin

Charlotte Dujardin OBE (born 13 July 1985) is an elite British dressage rider. Riding Valegro, Dujardin currently holds the complete set of the available individual elite dressage titles; the individual Olympic freestyle, World freestyle and Grand Prix Special, World Cup individual dressage and European freestyle and Grand Prix Special titles. Dujardin is the first, and to date only, rider to hold this complete set of titles at the same time.

In addition, she forms part of the current Great Britain team for Team Dressage; as such she is also the current Olympic, and a former European, Team Dressage champion.

In 2015, Charlotte became Global Ambassador for the Brooke Hospital for Animals - an equine welfare charity that focuses on improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules in 11 countries around the world. It is her first official charity partnership.

Early life:

Born in Enfield, Dujardin was brought up in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire where she attended Vandyke Upper School. She started riding as a two-year-old,returning her elder sisters' horses from the show jumping ring to the horse box. Aged three, she achieved second place at her first Pony Club show jumping competition outing. To finance their hobby, their mother Jane Dujardin bought and sold ponies for her daughters to ride to enable them to continue riding.

Leaving school aged 16,Dujardin won the Horse of the Year Show competition four times and was a winner at Hickstead on three occasions.

Olympics:

Dujardin and Valegro were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and in the first round the team set a new Olympic Record of 83.784%. On 7 August 2012 the pair were members of the team which won the gold medal in the team dressage event.Two days later, in a routine accompanied by music which included Land of Hope and Glory, The Great Escape and the chimes of Big Ben;the pair won the gold medal in the individual dressage event with a score of 90.089%