Camille Carier Bergeron Named Canada’s Athlete of Year, Statesman Horse of Year
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Nov. 9, 2024
Camille Carier Bergeron has been named Canada’s Athlete of the Year and Statesman competed by Naïma Moreira Laliberté is the Horse of the Year.
The 24-year-old Camille made her Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games with Finnländerin, a 14-year-old Oldenburg mare owned by Camille and her father, Gilles Bergeron.
Camille competed successfully as a junior and young rider at North American championships and rode Sound of Silence on Canada’s bronze medal team at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago Chile.
Her father, Gilles, and Camille bought Finnländerin from the Netherlands’ Madeleine Witte-Vrees in 2022. Gilles was declared Owner of the Year.
Camille began competing Finnländerin at the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida at the beginning of 2024 and was selected for Canada’s team at the Paris Olympics.
Statesman was developed by Jordi Domingo Coll from a young horse to compete on Spain’s European Championship team in 2017.
Naïma took over the ride the following year and competed Statesman at the 2019 Pan Ams for team gold and again at the 2023 continental championships, the 2022 World Championships and this year’s Paris Olympics.
Statesman, now 17 years old, is the current highest ranked Canadian horse and Naïma the top ranked rider on the FEI standings. The duo capped this year’s performances with a double victory at Toronto’s CDI3* Royal Agricultural Winter Fair this week.
