Edwina Tops-Alexander

Edwina Tops-Alexander is an Australian show jumper, born in Sydney on 29 March 1974, who began riding at eight through her local Pony Club. She won the Australian Young Rider's Championship in 1995 and made her debut for Australia in 1998, the year she moved to Europe. In 2000 she met the Dutch rider Jan Tops, who became her coach and later her husband. She rode at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing ninth individually, and again in 2012, and in 2016 at Rio she captained the Australian team and was ninth individually. She is the first Australian to place in the top ten at the World Equestrian Games, in fourth place in Aachen in 2006, and the first rider to earn more than one million euros in prize money on the Global Champions Tour, which she won overall in 2011 and 2012. She is described as Australia's most decorated female equestrian.