Sonja Johnson
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Born | Albany, Western Australia | 14 December 1967||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Sport | Equestrian | ||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Eventing | ||||||||||||||||
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Sonja Johnson (born 14 December 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) is an Australian equestrian who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as part of the three-day eventing team. The team consisted of Megan Jones, Clayton Fredericks, Lucinda Fredericks and Shane Rose[1]
She grew up on a farm[1] and says she began riding at the age of three to help muster cattle on the property. In 2006, she won the Melbourne 3-Day-Event on the horse Ringwould Jaguar.
References[]
- ^ a b "Sonja Johnson". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
Categories:
- Australian event riders
- Australian female equestrians
- Equestrians at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic equestrians of Australia
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Living people
- 1967 births
- Olympic medalists in equestrian
- People from Albany, Western Australia
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs
- Australian equestrian biography stubs