Cathrine Dufour

Cathrine Dufour, who also appears as Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, is a Danish dressage rider, born on 2 January 1992. Representing Denmark, she finished thirteenth individually and sixth with the team at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, then fourth in both the individual and team dressage at Tokyo in 2020. At the 2024 Paris Games she rode the horse Freestyle to a team silver medal and fifth place in the individual freestyle. In March 2025 she was ranked first in the FEI Dressage World Rankings. She started riding at five, joined the Danish national pony dressage team at twelve and won several medals at Danish and European junior and young riders championships. She studied leisure and sports management for a year at University College Zealand and started Cathrine Dressage, through which she trains horses and young riders and produces training videos.