BRINGING INTERNATIONAL SHOWJUMPING BACK TO YORKSHIRE

British Showjumping are thrilled to be announcing that International Showjumping is returning to Yorkshire with an exciting new event which will make it’s debut next Apr il at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield. The Yorkshire International Showjumping Event (YISE) which is due to run each Easter weekend from 2011 through 2013 brings top class showjumping into [...]

 
Dame Kelly Holmes to speak at BEF Coaching Convention 2010

Double Olympic Gold medallist, Dame Kelly Holmes has today been announced as one of the keynote speakers for the BEF’s Coaching Convention which takes place on Tuesday 19th October 2010 at Stareton Hall, Warwickshire. During her distinguished athletics career, Kelly won a total of 12 major medals at Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic meets, including [...]

 
British Dressage team announced for Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010

British Dressage today announced their selection for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010. The selected squad comprises (in alphabetical order): ·         Laura Bechtolsheimer riding Dr & Mrs Bechtolsheimer’s and her own Mistral Hojris (with Andretti H as her reserve horse.) ·         Fiona Bigwood riding her own Wie Atlantico ·         Maria Eilberg riding Mr Ferdi [...]

 
Duchess Visits BEF Supported Brixton Charity

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall met with the members of the equestrian community in Brixton, London, yesterday (21st July 2010) at an Open Day of the Ebony Horse Club charity of which she is President. Her visit included a tour of the area in Wyck Gardens that, once approximately £500,000 is raised, is destined to [...]

 
Health & Fitness Guru Angie Best To Support British Showjumping

Top health and fitness guru Angie Best is demonstrating her support for British Showjumping by accepting an Ambassador role for the sport. “I have a deep love of horses, ride myself and am fully aware of the health and fitness benefits of doing so,” says Angie, who also runs her own horse sanctuary. After living [...]

 
GREAT BRITAIN WIN TEAM GOLD AGAIN

Great Britain’s Children fail to disappoint as they are bringing home Team Gold from the European Championships for the fourth year running.   The 2010 Championships are taking place in Jardy, France near Paris where our Children’s team, aged 14 years and under have given an outstanding performance showing once again the incredible talent we have [...]

 
Clayton on International Leadership Programme

Maria Clayton, Head of Communications for British Showjumping has been selected and invited to represent Great Britain alongside five other sports in an International Leadership programme. The Women and International Leadership Programme (WILD) which is an EU funded programme offers intense training and continuous support where each participant will be assigned a personal mentor.  This, [...]

 
Showjumping board agree to step down

With a focus on how to best service the sport as it moves forward to 2012 and beyond, the Executive Board members of British Showjumping (BSJA) are pleased to announce that they have agreed to stand down in favour of forming a Sporting Council. A smaller skills based board will be appointed which will be [...]

 
Para showjumpers dominant in France

The squad of British Para Showjumping riders who made the journey to La Baule in France last week, dominated the top placings in all levels of competition.  In the competitions for Grade 1 and visually impaired competitors, Susi Rogers-Hartley from Kings Lynn in Norfolk finished in fourth place.  The Grade 2 competitions were a British [...]

 
Gemma finishes runner-up

Twenty-five year-old Gemma Paternoster from Elstead in Surrey finished runner-up in the 35,000€ Grand Prix, held in Linz, Austria yesterday. Riding her own fourteen year-old bay gelding Osiris and drawn second to go, the former Young Rider European Champion jumped one of just six first round clears of the entire competition.  An unlucky pole down [...]

 
Team Champion in Austria Win

Team Champion finished in Podium position today with a win at the CSIO4* Nations Cup in Linz, Austria. Drawn first to go of the fourteen teams, it was Gemma Paternoster with the impressive Osiris who had the unfortunate position of being the pathfinder – a difficult task for anyone in a team but made worse [...]

 
Britain share third place in France

It was a home win for France in the first round of the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup in the seaside resort of La Baule this afternoon, Friday 14th May. With grandstands absolutely packed to the gunnels the stadium erupted when current European Champion, Kevin Staut with the twelve year old bay stallion Kraque Boom [...]

 
Four British riders announced

Showjumping Performance Manager Rob Hoekstra today announced the four riders who will represent Great Britain at CSIO4* Lummen, taking place later this week. Ben Maher, Ellen Whitaker, Phillip Spivey and Mark Armstrong, accompanied by Chef d’Equipe and Performance Manager Rob Hoekstra, will all travel to Lummen in Belgium this week to contest the Belgian Nations [...]

 
Royal Leisure Team on Top of the World

Three delighted youngsters who qualified at Royal Leisure Equestrian Centre for the British Showjumping, British Riding Club and Pony Club Team competition at the British Open Championships last week won the final by a whisker with help from their mentor Tina Fletcher. In second place were the team from Rowallan in Scotland and mentored by [...]

 
Another Team of Three Through to British Open

Three young riders have qualified as a team for the British Showjumping Pony Club/Riding Club competition at the 2010 British Open Showjumping Championships next week at the NEC, Birmingham. The team who qualified at Forest Edge Equestrian Centre will be allocated their own top show jumper to act as their team coach and Chef d’Equipe [...]

 
‘Performance of the Month’ for February

Torinto van de Middelstede’s double clear in the Abu Dhabi Nations Cup at the beginning of February has been voted ‘Performance of the Month’ for February. The fourteen year-old bay gelding, owned by his rider Guy Williams, produced two foot perfect rounds to help secure victory for Great Britain in the Nations Cup. The new [...]

 
Ben Maher Leads Nominations at Next Months Awards Ball

Britain’s leading rider Ben Maher has been nominated for three different categories at next month’s glittering annual Awards Ball hosted by British Showjumping at the Hilton Metropole, NEC on the 6th April 2010. With Ben Maher’s career soaring in such a meteoric way, it comes as no surprise that he has been nominated for three [...]

 
British Showjumping Awards Nominees Annouched

British Showjumping are pleased to announce the shortlist of nominee’s up for an award at the prestigious Awards Ball which takes place on the 6th April 2009 at the Hilton Metropole, NEC Birmingham. To be part of the excitement and to support your favourite riders please don’t forget to book your tickets.  Once you’ve enjoyed [...]

 
NAF Join British Showjumping as Business Partners

NAF are delighted to have struck up a new Business Partnership with British Showjumping.  The aim of the new relationship is for NAF to not only offer valuable support to the sport as a whole, but also to several exciting initiatives which particularly benefit the ambitious, up and coming members of the association. The premium [...]

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