Beatriz Ferrer-Salat

Beatriz Ferrer-Salat is a Spanish dressage rider, born in Barcelona on 11 March 1966, who has competed at five Olympic Games. She took bronze in the individual dressage and silver with the Spanish team at the 2004 Athens Games, and also rode at the 1996, 2000, 2016 and 2020 Games. Her father Carlos Ferrer played Davis Cup tennis for Spain and later led the Spanish Olympic Committee while Barcelona won the bid for the 1992 Games, which inspired her to take up the sport professionally. She trained in Germany before returning to Spain, where she became a leading rider on the horse Beauvalais, with whom she won individual silver and team bronze at the 2002 World Equestrian Games. Her results at the European Championships added further individual and team medals, and she is described as the most successful dressage rider in Spanish history. In 2013 she became chair of the board of the Spanish Dressage Riders Club.