London 2012: Equestrianism progress report

Podium athletes 24 Development athletes 31 UK Sport Mission 2012 progress rating Amber Will Connell, performance director: In the past year we have … won five medals in Olympic equestrian sport. This includes crowning Tina Cook the European Eventing Champion, retaining the eventing team title for the eighth consecutive European Championships and adding team and individual European dressage medals to the tally. Six new European titles were won by the para-equestrian dressage squad and they remain unbeaten as a team. In the next two years we will … have a world and European championship for each of the four Olympic and Paralympic equestrian sports. We aim to secure the final extra quota places available to us for London 2012 and prepare horses and riders in the best possible way for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Medal tally prediction … It is still a long way off but I would like to think equestrianism will contribute to the medal table as it has done at previous Games.