1. Charlotte Susan Jane Dujardin was born on 13 July 1985 and is a British dressage rider, equestrian, and writer.
18 Facts About Charlotte Dujardin
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Charlotte Dujardin was the first rider to hold this complete set of titles at the same time.
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On 23 July 2024, Charlotte Dujardin pulled out of the 2024 Summer Olympics after a video surfaced of her "excessively" whipping a horse during training.
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Charlotte Dujardin was provisionally handed a one-year suspension, which was upheld by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports in December 2024.
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Charlotte Dujardin started riding as a two-year-old, returning her elder sisters' horses from the show jumping ring to the horse trailer.
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Charlotte Dujardin attended Vandyke Upper School in Leighton Buzzard, but later commented, "I didn't really attend school that much".
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Charlotte Dujardin won the Horse of the Year Show competition four times and was a winner at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead on three occasions.
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In 2011, Charlotte Dujardin was asked by Hester and co-owner Roly Luard to develop Valegro, a novice Dutch Warmblood gelding, with the intention of that horse being ridden by Hester.
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However, Charlotte Dujardin competed on Valegro in their first dressage Grand Prix event in 2011 and the combination became part of the successful team which won gold in a European Dressage Championship event at Rotterdam.
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In 2019, Charlotte Dujardin was eliminated from the Longines FEI European Championships after blood was found on her horse, Mount St John Freestyle, after her test.
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On 14 December 2016, Charlotte Dujardin retired Valegro at the age of 14 after completing a freestyle test at the Olympia London International Horse Show.
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On 23 July 2024, Charlotte Dujardin pulled out of competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris after a video emerged of her repeatedly whipping a horse during training.
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Charlotte Dujardin said in a statement she was "deeply ashamed" and the incident "was completely out of character and does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils".
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Charlotte Dujardin was dropped as an ambassador for horse welfare charity Brooke and two of her sponsors terminated their deals with her.
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Two days after Charlotte Dujardin was suspended, board members of the International Dressage Riders Club, including her former mentor and Olympic teammate Hester, issued a statement "universally condemn[ing]" her actions.
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On 6 March 2023, Charlotte Dujardin gave birth to a daughter.
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Charlotte Dujardin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours, both for services to equestrianism.
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Charlotte Dujardin has a modern strip of public housing, Charlotte Dujardin Mews, named after her in Enfield.