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Chris Burton

Athlete Biography

Chris Burton is heading into his second Olympic Games as a top contender being ranked second in

the Eventing World Rankings. He will ride the nine-year-old black gelding Santano II at the Rio

Games.

Currently living in Surrey, England the Queensland born athlete secured his second Olympic berth

after a dominating 2015 season. He guided two horses to a top �ve �nish at the 2015 Burghley

Horse Trials CCI4* (TS Jamaimo and Haruzac) and took out the world record for the lowest ever

�nishing score at a three day event aboard Santano II, in the CCI2* in Camphire.

Burton �nished second at the 2015 Blenheim Horse Trials CCI3* with Nobilis 18, placed 4th at the

Luhmühlen CCI4* with Graf Liberty and helped Australia claim bronze in the 2015 FEI Nations Cup

Eventing Series.

Burton recorded his �rst 3* win in 2005 and went on to win the Australian International Three Day

Event CCI4* in 2008 aboard Newsprint. He made his international debut for Australia at the 2010

World Equestrian Games in Kentucky where he �nished mid�eld on Holstein Park Leilani.

The lover of cold weather, snow and skiing moved to the United Kingdom in 2012 with Holstein

Park Leilani in a bid to make the London Eventing Team – a move that came to fruition when the 31-

year old rode at his debut Olympic Games in 2012. He placed sixth in the team event and 16th in

the individual.

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Fast Facts

Sport Equestrian - Eventing Status Selected

Event/s Individual Open, Team Open Nickname Burto

Height 180 Weight 70

Age 34 Born Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Lives Dorset, England

Olympic Information

London 2012 - 16th (Individual), 6th (Team)

Recent Performances

1st – 2016 Saumur CCI3*(Saumur, France) - Santano II

1st – 2016 Belton CIC3* (Belton, UK) - Nobilis 18

14th – 2016 Belton Horse Trials CIC3*(Belton, UK) - Santano II

35th – 2016 Burnham Market CIC3* (Burnham Market, UK) - Santano II

3rd & 4th – 2015 Burghley Horse Trials CCI4*( Burghley, UK) with TS Jamaimo and Haruzac

Career Highlights

Winning the 4 star event in Adelaide in 2009 and 2013

Winning Aachen CICO3* in 2012 and 2013

3rd and 4th at Burghley CCI4* in 2015

Education

Primary Kulpi State School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Downlands College (QLD, Australia)

Training

Coach Prue Barrett (2010 - current)

Primary Training Base Surrey, United Kingdom




Q&A

Favourite holiday destination Anywhere with snow

Favourite music Eric Clapton

Personal Motto Trust yourself

Star Sign Sagittarius/Scorpio

I would spend my last $10 on A cold beer

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Equestrian - Jumping

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Australia team gold in the Eventing at Atlanta

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Sam Gri》ths

Athlete Biography

London Olympian Sam Gri》ths will compete at his second Games at Rio 2016 on the 13 –year-old

Irish Sport Horse Paulank Brockagh.

In 1995, Gri》ths moved to the United Kingdom to peruse his equestrian career. He trained and

worked as a back-up rider for dual Olympic gold medallist Matt Ryan for three years, training and

competing at all levels of horse events. The Melbourne born athlete had his מrst taste of

international success when he won team gold and individual silver at the Asia/Paciמc

Championships in 2003.

After being shortlisted for the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Games, Gri》ths’ Olympic dream came

to fruition in 2012 when he was a reserve and then called up after two of his teammates’ horses

were injured (Shane Rose and Megan Jones.) Gri》ths fell from Happy Times in the cross country

phase. Australia eventually placing sixth.

The UK based rider won the 2014 Badminton Horse Trials CCI4* with Paulank Brockagh. The same

year, he placed 16th individually and fourth in the team event at the World Equestrian Games in

Normandy.

Gri》th says his wife Lucy, who also used to compete in eventing at an elite level, is the biggest

in쵟uence on his sporting career. The couple live on the Dorset/Somerset border with their two

young children Ollie and Eliza.



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Fast Facts


Event/s Individual Open, Team Open Height 171

Weight 73 Age 44

Born Melbourne, VIC, Australia Lives Dorset, United Kingdom

Olympic Information

London 2012 - EL (individual eventing) ; 6th (team eventing)

Recent Performances

26th – 2016 Badminton Horse Trials CCI4* (Badminton, UK)

21st – 2016 Belton CIC3* (Belton, UK)

9th – 2015 Burghley Horse Trials CCI4* (Burghley, UK)

10th – 2015 Badminton Horse Trials CCI4* (Badminton, UK)

15th – 2014 Gatcombe Park CIC3* (Gatcombe, UK)

Career Highlights

Winning the 2014 Badminton Horse Trials in England

Education

Tertiary Geography - Monash University: Melba, ACT, AUS

Training

Institute/Academy Gri》ths Eventing Team: England

Q&A




Personal Motto You can have trainers saying things to you consistently but sometimes you just

have to work it out for yourself

Most In剩വuential person in your career/life My wife Lucy

Why this sport? My older brother took it seriously, which meant I received his outgrown ponies

and horses. With two brothers into eventing, the family would all go away together for the

weekend.

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Shane Rose

Athlete Biography

Rio 2016 is Shane Rose’s fourth Olympic Eventing selection however he has been forced to

withdraw from the Team twice previously with injuries to his horses. Rose will take the Rio stage

with his 13-year-old grey gelding CP Quali㿵슐ed, and he is due some better Olympic luck. He is ranked

㿵슐fth in the world rankings.

After some early success in his international career, Rose was selected to compete at the 1996

Atlanta Games, but his horse Mr Joe Cool went lame in the journey to the USA and he was unable

to compete. It was 12 years later when his Olympic dream was realised for the Beijing 2008 Games.

Competing in Hong Kong, Rose and horse All Luck helped Australia win silver in the Team event,

with the pair clocking the best cross country round of the event. He also placed 27th in the

Individual event at his debut Games.

Rose was devastated when his horse Taurus, who he had been preparing for 㿵슐ve years, was unable

to compete at the London Olympics after he pulled up lame with a shoulder injury. Rose was forced

to withdraw from his second Olympic appearance.

The Sydney born rider was a member of the fourth placed Australian Eventing Team at the World

Equestrian Games in Normandy, 2014. The following year he guided two horses to 㿵슐nish 1st and

2nd at the 2015 Australian International Three Day Event CCI4* (CP Quali㿵슐ed and Virgil).

Rose began riding horses at his local pony club when he was young, the same time he was

competing in junior rugby union representative teams. He turned his focus solely to riding after a

six month stint in the United Kingdom testing himself out in the sport. With a degree in horse

management, Rose lives an hour west of Sydney in Werombi where he owns a property called

Bimbadeen Park with wife Niki, which o䁆ers services for race and performance horses.


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Fast Facts


Event/s Individual Open, Team Open Nickname Ringa

Height 181 Weight 80

Age 43 Born Sydney, NSW, Australia

Lives Werombi, NSW, Australia

Olympic Information

2008 Beijing - 2nd (team eventing), 27th (individual eventing)

Recent Performances

1st – 2016 Melbourne International Three Day Event CIC3*(Melbourne, Australia)

2nd – 2016 Sydney International Horse Trials CIC3* (Sydney, Australia)

1st & 2nd – 2015 Australian International Three Day Event CCI4* (Adelaide, Australia) with CP

Quali㿵슐ed and Virgil

1st – 2015 Goulburn Horse Trials CIC3* (Goulburn, Australia)

1st – 2015 Taupo CCI3* (Taupo, New-Zealand)

Career Highlights

Winning a Silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Member of the 4th placed Australian Eventing Team at the World Equestrian Games, Normandy

2014

5 x winner of the Anna Savage Medal (Best and fairest award for Australian Eventing riders)

Education

Primary Pittwater House, NSW Australia

Secondary Sydney Tafe, NSW Australia

Tertiary Equine Science, Sydney Institute of Technology





Training

Coach Gareth Hughes (2012 to current) and Rod Brown (2012 to current)

Primary Training Base Werombi, NSW

Q&A

Favourite food Japaneese

Favourite holiday destination Home.

Favourite music Most but acqustic rock

Dream car Family Wagon? NOT!

Personal Motto Be the best you can be

Star Sign Taurus

I would spend my last $10 on Something to eat

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Something old people could do

Why this sport? Grew up riding. I love it. Being able to work with horses.

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Stuart Tinney

Athlete Biography

Stuart Tinney made his Olympic debut 16 years ago at the Sydney Games with great success. He

will compete at his third Games at Rio 2016 in the Eventing section, the riding veteran will compete

on the 17-year-old grey gelding Pluto Mio.

The Queenslander was part of the victorious three-day eventing Team at Sydney 2000 with Andrew

Hoy, Phillip Dutton and Matt Ryan. Australia has won this event on four occasions, with the last

three victories being at successive Olympic Games – Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney

2000. Tinney, on Jeepster, was the only Australian-based member of the team and was the best

ranked of all the riders in the event. If it was run under the new format he would have also won the

Individual gold.

Four years later in Athens, Tinney placed 38th for the Individual and sixth overall in the Team

section.

The four-time World Equestrian Games athlete placed 11th in the 2014 tournament in Normandy,

France.

Tinney married his wife Karen in 1993 and together they run a 30-acre horse training centre one

hour from the centre of Sydney with their two daughters, Gemma and Jaymee.



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Fast Facts


Event/s Individual Open, Team Open Height 180

Weight 71 Age 51

Born Mundubberah, QLD, Australia Lives Maraylya, NSW, Australia

Olympic Information

2000 Sydney - 1st (eventing - team) 2004 Athens - 6th (eventing - team); 38th (eventing -

individual)

Career Highlights

Winning Olympic gold in Sydney, 2000.

World Equestrian games 2014 9th

Education

Primary Gladstone Central State School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Gladstone High School (QLD, Australia)

Training

Coach Brett Parbury (2010 - current)

Primary Training Base Maraylya, NSW, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Pizza, seafood

Favourite holiday destination On the beach somewhere

Favourite music Everything

Dream car 1972 Ferrari Dino 246 GT or 1967 Citroen DS. ferrari 458 italia

Personal Motto Wear sunscreen.




Star Sign Sagittarius

I would spend my last $10 on Co麕ꄰee

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Athletics

Why this sport? Horses

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