Sophie christiansen cbe, equestrian, has competed in four successive paralympics from athens 2004 to rio 2016 games winning 8 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals.
Sophie paralympic equestrian. The former european and world. We speak to para equestrian champion sophie christiansen about living with cerebral palsy and competing in para dressage ahead of the tokyo 2020 paralympic games. That’s the story that great britain’s sophie christiansen.
Sophie was awarded an mbe in. This year’s paralympic games at tokyo, which ended on sunday (sept 5) saw 10 singaporean athletes give their all to do us proud. When sophie christiansen was born, premature and with cerebral palsy, she was not expected to survive.
Individual paralympic gold medallist sophie wells obe is an outstanding athlete in the spectacular and technically demanding equestrian sport of dressage. 8 time paralympic equestrian gold medalist, woman in tech and disability campaigner. She was born two months premature and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which affects her.
Our athletes participated in 18 events across.