Team GB currently has 14 gold medals to its name at the Paris 2024 Games. It’s a more than respectable haul that, alongside 22 silver and 29 bronze medals, puts them seventh in the overall standings.
British equestrian Rosalind Canter got Great Britain going with their first gold medal of the Summer in the Team Eventing competition.
She rode alongside Laura Collett and Tom McEwen at the Chateau du Versailles, besting the French on their own soil to earn first place on the podium.
Here’s everything you need to know about Team GB’s aptly-named hero.
Rosalind Canter Career Highlights
Having grown up on her family’s Lincolnshire farm, ponies were very much a part of Rosalind Canter‘s childhood. It was with her first horse, Silver Curtis, that the 38-year-old got a taste for British Eventing.
Following a mixed start to her career, gold medals and major competition wins soon began to flow. Debuting Allstar B at the European Championships in 2017, Canter earned top spot on the podium for Team Eventing.
The following year she rode the same horse to gold in Team and Individual Eventing at the World Championships in Tryon.
Olympics aside, 2023 was undoubtedly Canter’s best year to date. She claimed top spot in Team and Individual Eventing at the European Championships, and won both the Badminton Horse Trials and Pau 5*.
‘A Long Time Coming’
Paris wasn’t Canter’s first trip to the Olympic games, but it was her first time competing. She was taken to Tokyo as a reserve in 2020, yet didn’t quite get her chance to shine.
She has more than made up for that in Paris, however, and is already eyeing a spot at the LA Games in 2028.
“It’s easier with just one human, but when you put a horse in as well, you never quite know what’s going to happen,” she told BBC Sport.
“Four years is a long time to plan, particularly with horses.”
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