Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, Olympic, European Champion, World No. 1 to Host Global Dressage Festival Masterclass in Wellington Mar. 24
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Feb. 24, 2022
The night time event with the 36-year-old Jessica will be staged in the centerpiece arena at the Global grounds with riders invited to participate in the masterclass that has become a highlight of the winter-long circuit.
Jessica on TSF Dalera BB led Germany to team gold and claimed individual gold at the Tokyo Olympics last summer. She become world No. 1 a month later in August 2021 then went on to again lead Germany to team gold as well as claim individual and freestyle golds at the European Championships in September.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for dressage riders and fans in Wellington to learn from a rider like Jessica,” said AGDF Director of Sport Thomas Baur. “We are pleased to have her here and be able to share her experience with those at AGDF.”
She has had a remarkable career beginning with both individual and freestyle gold medals at the 2004 and 2005 European Young Rider Championships.
She was competing at Big Tour as early as 2007 when she was 21 years old.
On Unee BB, her main competition mount at the time, she rode on the German team at the 2015 European Championships as well as four World Cup Finals, taking bronze at three of them.
Her biggest successes have come on Dalera, a Trakehner mare now 15 years old, that she rode on the German gold medal team at the 2018 World Equestrian Games as well sweeping the Tokyo Olympics and last year’s Europeans.
Jessica is currently also competing Ferdinand BB at Grand Prix, a Hanoverian gelding she showed as a five-year-old in the World Young Horse Championships.
Jessica is a member of the “80% Club” of riders that have earned at least that mark at international Grand Prix and also one of only six riders in the “90% Club,” those who have achieved that level in the history of dressage.
A little known fact displaying her dedication to the sport–when Jessica and her brother, Benjamin, also a top dressage competitor, were preparing their senior careers they moved to England for a year primarily to improve their English, the language of international equestrian activities.
