Laura Collett

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Laura Collett
Personal information
Born (1989-08-31) 31 August 1989 (age 32)
Sport
Country United Kingdom
SportEquestrian
Event(s)Eventing
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team eventing

Laura Collett (born 31 August 1989) is a British equestrian who competes in eventing.[1][2]

Early life and career[]

Collett won the supreme pony title at Horse of the Year Show in 2003 when she was 13. She won nine medals during her youth career, including three individual golds, in the juniors in 2006 on Fernhill Sox, in the juniors in 2007 on Rayef, and the young riders in 2009 again on Rayef.[3]

Career[]

Laura has been selected for three European Eventing Championships as an individual. She was eliminated on the cross-country on her senior championship debut at Luhmühlen in 2011, but finished 13th at the 2015 championships at Blair Castle on Grand Manoeuvre. Collett was second at Luhmühlen five-star in 2018 on Mr Bass, but she achieved her first five-star win in October 2020 when she took the title at the Pau Horse Trials, France, riding her own, Keith Scott and Karen Bartlett’s horse London 52 and therefore has the honour of winning the only five-star of 2020 because the eventing calendar that year had been decimated by Covid-19.[4] The horse had previously been the 2018 eight- and nine-year-old champion at Blenheim Horse Trials,[5] as well as winning the Event Rider Masters at Chatsworth Horse Trials[6] and the CCI4*-L at the Boekelo Horse Trials,[7] both in 2019. But he had also fallen at the 2019 European Eventing Championships in Luhmühlen having sat third after the dressage.[8]

In 2021, eight years after her near fatal accident, Laura and London 52 were selected to represent Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo that been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic . She won gold in the team event with Oliver Townend and Tom McEwen.[9]

Personal life[]

Following a heavy fall from her horse in 2013, Collett had to be resuscitated five times and given an emergency tracheotomy by paramedics after suffering a fractured shoulder, broken ribs, a punctured lung, a lacerated liver and damage to her kidneys. Also, a fragment of her shoulder bone had detached and travelled to her right eye through her blood stream and damaged the optic nerve. She was placed in an induced coma for six days.[10][11]

References[]

  1. ^ "Laura Collett - About". Fédération Équestre Internationale (fei.org).
  2. ^ "Laura Collett". SELLERIA EQUIPE SPA (selleriaequipe.it).
  3. ^ "Laura Collett, the latest news on the British event rider". Horse & Hound.
  4. ^ "Laura Collett's exclusive reflections on Pau: 'Now, London believes in himself' *H&H Plus members*". Horse & Hound. 28 October 2020.
  5. ^ Berendt, Tilly. "Balancing the Lows with the Highs: Laura Collett and London 52 Take Blenheim CIC3* - Eventing Nation - Three-Day Eventing News, Results, Videos, and Commentary". eventingnation.com.
  6. ^ "Popular British rider scores a first Event Rider Masters win at Chatsworth". www.horseandhound.co.uk.
  7. ^ Berendt, Tilly. "Laura Collett Takes Boekelo; Switzerland Qualify for Olympics - Eventing Nation - Three-Day Eventing News, Results, Videos, and Commentary". eventingnation.com.
  8. ^ Redrup, Gemma (31 August 2019). "Laura Collett falls but Pippa Funnell goes clear at halfway stage of European Eventing Championships cross-country". Horse & Hound.
  9. ^ Roome, Pippa (1 July 2021). "*Breaking news* British Olympic eventing team for Tokyo Games revealed". Horse & Hound.
  10. ^ Kelly, Eleanore (26 October 2020). "Death threats and near-lethal accidents - Meet Laura Collett, the equestrian rider lucky to be alive". telegraph.co.uk.
  11. ^ Armytage, Marcus (9 July 2013). "British eventing star Laura Collett spends second night in intensive care following fall". telegraph.co.uk.


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