Patricia Ferrando
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| Nationality |  Venezuela,  Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Born | July 19, 1985 Caracas, Venezuela | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Dressage | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Yvonne Losos de Muñiz | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2024 Olympic Games | ||||||||||||||
| World finals | 2019 Pan American Games | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Patricia Ferrando (born 19 July 1985 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an Italian and Venezuelan Olympic dressage rider. She competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima where she became 12th in the finals and at the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto.[1][2] She won a golden team medal at the 2009 Bolivarian Games, with the Venezuelan team. She is currently the most successful dressage rider from Venezuela.[3]
In 2019 Patricia tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 under supervision of her trainer Yvonne Losos de Muñiz and competed at several international competitions in Europe, including Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Spain.[4] Patricia qualified Venezuela as first reserve country from Group D & E (North America, Central and South America) following the FEI regulations for the Olympic Games.[5]
Ferrando competed at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, becoming the first Venezuelan dressage athlete at the Olympics.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Patricia FERRANDO".
- ^ "Patricia Ferrando". Olympics.com.
- ^ "Rubin Cartier Sold to Venezuela". Eurodressage.
- ^ "Entrevista con Patricia Ferrando – Revista Mundo Equino". revistamundoequino.com.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Roome, Pippa (31 July 2024). "'I'd love to inspire everyone to do dressage': meet Venezuela's first female Olympic rider". Horse and Hound.
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- Olympic equestrians for Venezuela
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- Female equestrians
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