- Jane Gregory
Jane Gregory nee Jane Bredin (was born in
England on the 30th of June 1959), she first rode Internationally in 1994 competing inWorld Equestrian Games of that year. She has competed for the Great Britain in Dressage at Olympics in Atlanta and Beijing. cite web |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6743 |title= Athlete Profile |accessdate=2008-08-09 |work= |publisher=www.olympics.org.uk |date= ]Personal life
In 2006 she married her parter of 20 years
Aram Gregory .Early life
She comes from a non - equestrian Family. At the age of 7 she started to learn to ride, she went weekly to her local Horse riding centre in
Cornwall . Her first horse was Connemara it was Bought for her by herGodmother for £175. She joined the North Cornwall Pony Club, winning the junior section of club's championships in 1976.International career
Her International career started in 1994. In that year she competed in the World Equestrian Games . She rode at the Atlanta Olympics 1996 with her horse Cupid. for several years after this she did not compete internationally due to horse injuries. by 2001 she was first in the small tour rankings. She made a full comeback in 2006 cite web |url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/article.php?aid=262269 |title=An all-girl British dressage team is off to Hong Kong |accessdate=2008-08-09 |work= |publisher=www.horseandhound.co.uk |date= ] when she won grand prix and grand prix special with he horse Lucky Star at Munich CDI in May, then she won the grand prix freestyle at the Mariakalnok CDI. Her current coach is
Ulla Salzgeber . She is Competing in Dressage forTeam GB at the Beijing Olympics, she said "I am in a state of shock," upon finding out that she was selected. [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/equestrian/7475451.stm |title=Gregory in Olympic dressage team |accessdate=2008-08-09 |work= |publisher=news.bbc.co.uk |date= ] She is a member of the GB dressage team along with Laura Bechtolsheimer and Emma Hindle. [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/team_gb/7094118.stm#equestrian |title=Team GB for Beijing |accessdate=2008-08-09 |work= |publisher=news.bbc.co.uk |date= ]Results
[ cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/jane-bredin-1.html |title=Jane Bredin |accessdate=2008-08-09 |work= |publisher= www.sports-reference.com |date= ]
References
External links
* [http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6743 Team GB Profile]
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