Dinja van Liere (born 16 August 1990) is a Dutch dressage rider.[1] She competed at the European Dressage Championships in Hagen 2021 and was the traveling reserve for the Dutch team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.[2]
 Dinja van Liere and Haute Couture (2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 16 August 1990 Goes, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Dressage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Rieky Young | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Van Liere represented the Dutch team at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, becoming fourth in the team competition and fourth in the individual competition with her horse Hermes, scoring a personal best of 88.432% in the Grand Prix Freestyle, only half a percentage to the bronze medal.[3]
Equestrian career
editVan Liere started riding at a young age and became stable rider at Stal Hexagon. In 2012 she became National Indoor Champion in the M2 level and the same year she won a bronze medal at the World Championships for Young Horses in Verden, Germany. The years after she rode successfully in the Grand Prix under 25, but her breakthrough came in 2021 when she competed two horses Haute Couture and Hermes in the international Grand Prix.[4] She was named to represent The Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Tokyo but after a technical mistake in the owners' registration in the database of the FEI, she was not allowed to compete that horse. With her other horse Haute Couture Van Liere was named as traveling reserve. A month later she was selected by the Dutch Equestrian Federation to compete at the European Championships in Hagen.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Dinja VAN LIERE". FEI. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Olympic Dressage Team for 2021 Tokyo Games Named". Eurodressage. 2021-07-05.
- ^ "Dutch Olympic Team for Paris 2024 Announced". Eurodressage.com. 2024-06-25.
- ^ Elder, Lucy (2023-08-08). "'I'm eager to ride 80%': Dutch competitor eyes huge future for world bronze medallist after World Championships Personal Best". Horse and Hound.
- ^ "LIERE, DINJA VAN" (in Dutch). Royal Dutch Equestrian Federation (KNHS). Retrieved 2021-09-10.
External links
edit- Dinja van Liere (and here) at FEI
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