Canada Announces Naima Moreira Laliberté/Statesman & Ryan Torkkeli/Sternenwanderer for World Championships, No Team
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OTTAWA, Ontario, June 30, 2022–Naima Moreira Laliberté on Statesman and Ryan Torkkeli on Sternenwanderer will compete in dressage for Canada at the world championships in Herning, Denmark Aug. 6-14, Equestrian Canada announced Thursday. There will be no team.
The world championships will be the first for both combinations:
Naima, 25 years old, and Statesman, 15-year-old Hanoverian gelding, owned by KML, Inc.
Ryan, 40, and Sternenwanderer, 16-year-old Rhinelander gelding, owned by Ingetraud Bolz and Dieter Laugks.
Naima and Statesman were Canada’s traveling reserve for the team at the Tokyo Olympics. The pair won gold at the 2019 Pan American Games and at two Nations Cup teams at Wellington, Florida as well as competing at the CDIO5* in Aachen last year. Naima moved to Europe after the winter-long Global Dressage Festival in Wellington to seek to represent Canada at the world championships held once every four years. She has competed on both Statesman and the nine-year-old Inspire in Spain and Germany since then.
Ryan and Sternenwanderer were also on Canada’s team at the Nations Cup in Aachen last September and have competed across Europe for more than a year.
