Australia’s World Championship Team Announced

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Australia’s world championship dressage team–Jayden Brown/Sky Diamond; Simone Pearce/Fiderdance; Lyndal Oatley/Elvive; Mary Hanna/Calanta.

July 11, 2022

The Australian team for the world championships at Herning, Denmark was announced Monday

  • Jayden Brown, 34 years old, and WillingaPark Sky Diamond, 12-year-old Hanoverian gelding, owned by Terrence and Ginette Snow;
  • Lyndal Oatley,  42, and Elvive, 13-year-old KWPN mare, owned by Andrew and Carol Oatley;
  • Mary Hanna, 67, and Calanta, 15-year-old KWPN mare, owned by Rob and Mary Hanna
  • Simone Pearce, 31 (as of July 18), and  Fiderdance, 13-year-old Oldenburg stallion, owned by Gestüt Bonhomme of Germany

Jayden Brown, currently based in England, has not previously ridden on an Australian team. He competed at the World Young Horse Championships in 2013.

Lyndal Oatley is based in Germany with her husband, Patrik Kittel of Sweden. She competed on Australian teams at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the World Equestrian Games at Lexington, Kentucky in 2014 and at Caen, France in 2014 as well as the World Cup Final in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016.

Mary Hanna is Australia’s most experienced dressage rider having competed at six Olympics–Atlanta 1996; Sydney 2000; Athens 2004; London 2012; Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020, where she rode Calanta. She has also ridden at five World Equestrian Games–Den Haag, Netherlands 1994; Rome 1998; Jerez, Spain 2002; Caen, France 2014 and Tryon, USA 2018, as well as World Cup Finals 1997, 2014 and 2016, and the open European Championships in 1995 and 2003.

Simone Pearce after  moving to Europe a decade ago developed a reputation working with young horses, in recent years with Helgstrand in Denmark, then the German studs Gestüt Sprehe and Gestüt Bonhomme. She rode the Gestüt Sprehe stallion Destano at the Tokyo Olympics, her first Australian team event.