Ingham storms to debut gold
Team medals
Individual medals
FEI World Championships, Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy
YOUNG riders often talk about riding alongside their heroes on a senior championship debut and we’re all impressed when they put in creditable performances, perhaps contribute to a team medal or finish in the top 20. But it’s a rare moment when a first-timer not only plays on a level with their idols, but cuts through the jostling pack and finishes above them all.
Last week, Britain’s Yasmin Ingham achieved just this when she went to the World Championships as the rookie alongside four British riders with 13 medals between them and came home as the individual victor, riding the supreme equine athlete Banzai Du Loir.
It is 17 years since a rider of any nationality won on their senior championship debut, the last being Zara Tindall at the 2005 Blenheim Europeans on another chestnut, Toytown. Like Yasmin, she was 25 years old.
“I look up to all of the other members of the British team and now I’ve managed to
