Carl Hester

Carl Hester (born 29 June 1967 in Cambridgeshire, England) is a British dressage rider who competes at Olympic level. He grew up on the Channel Island of Sark and was educated at Elizabeth College in Guernsey. Riding the skewbald mare Jolly Dolly he won the 1985 Young Dressage Rider Championship, and at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics on Georgioni he became the youngest British rider ever to compete in an Olympic Games. In 2011 he rode Uthopia in the British team that won European team gold and took individual silver in both the Grand Prix Freestyle and the Grand Prix Special. In 2012 the British dressage team with Hester on Uthopia won Olympic gold in London, and he was appointed MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours.