The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team has been announced for the 2022 Blue Hors FEI Dressage World Championship presented by Helgstrand, hosted in Herning, Denmark, August 6-10. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe George Williams and Team Leader Hallye Griffin.
The U.S. Dressage Team will compete as part of Team USA at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Debbie McDonald and Team Leader Hallye Griffin. The first horse inspection will take place on July 23, and competition is set to begin on July 24 and continue through July 28, 2021, at the Equestrian Park in Tokyo, Japan. Three combinations will compete as a team with one traveling reserve.
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The U.S. will compete against two Canadian teams in the FEI Nations Cup CDIO-U25 competition and drew last in the order of go. Chef d’Equipe Charlotte Bredahl will guide the team of Lauren Asher, Kerrigan Gluch, and Natalie Pai as they look to defend the podium after a gold-medal finish in the U.S.’s debut U25 team competition in 2017 and a silver-medal finish in 2018.
The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team makes their 2019 FEI Dressage Nations Cup™ debut in front of a home crowd when the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA gets underway on Wednesday, March 13, in Wellington, Fla. Newly appointed Technical Advisor and Chef d’Equipe Debbie McDonald will lead The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team of Jennifer Baumert, Shelly Francis, Ashley Holzer, and Charlotte Jorst as they pursue a top finish in week 10 of the 12-week 2019 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival.
The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team last saw the podium at the WEG in 2006, when the U.S. team of Leslie Morse, Guenter Seidel, Steffen Peters, and Debbie McDonald won the team bronze medal in Aachen, Germany. Before that, the 2002 U.S. team of Debbie McDonald, Lisa Wilcox, Susan Blinks, and Guenter Seidel won the team silver medal in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In 1994, Kathleen Raine, Robert Dover, Gary Rockwell, and Carol Lavell won the team bronze medal in The Hague, The Netherlands.