Three-time Olympic dressage champion Anky van Grunsven is recovering after breaking her pelvis in a driving accident.
The Dutch rider was injured in a fall on 31 December, two days earlier than her 57th birthday.
“Sadly my 12 months didn’t begin nicely. [On] New 12 months’s Eve I had a severe fall from a horse. It looks like if I fall, I’ll do it proper,” stated Anky, who was taken to hospital by ambulance the place it was confirmed that she had damaged her pelvis.
“Fortunate accident; no surgical procedure required. I received’t be on horseback for some time and can attempt to stroll once more first.”
Anky’s first Olympic look was on the 1988 Seoul Video games on Prisco. She went on to compete at each Olympics as much as and together with London 2012, successful her first medal, group silver, with Bonfire at Barcelona in 1992. She went on to win eight additional Olympic medals; 4 group silvers and a bronze, a person silver, and three particular person golds.
Anky made historical past when she grew to become the primary rider to win particular person Olympic gold 3 times in a row; with Bonfire on the Sydney Video games in 2000, and with Salinero on the 2004 Athens Video games and in 2008 in Hong Kong. She has additionally received six world medals, and 14 Europeans.
She and Salinero set a freestyle world report at ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2006, scoring 87.925%, and adopted it up with particular person gold on the World Equestrian Video games in Aachen that 12 months. Additionally they received 4 World Cup Closing titles.
The London Olympics was Anky and Salinero’s closing worldwide dressage competitors, after which each retired from the game. Salinero died in 2022 aged 28.
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