Mary Hanna

Mary Hanna, born Mary Sutherland in Melbourne on 1 December 1954, is an Australian dressage rider who has represented Australia at six Olympic Games. Her first was Atlanta in 1996, followed by Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004, London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2020. She was part of the Australian team that finished sixth in 2000 and ninth in both 2012 and 2016. At Rio, aged 61, she became the oldest Australian athlete ever to compete at an Olympics, passing the equestrian medallist Bill Roycroft. She was coached by Kyra Kyrklund and Clemens Dierks and later by Patrik Kittel, and her main training base is at Gisborne in Victoria. She also rode at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy, where she placed tenth with the Australian dressage team, and qualified for the FEI World Cup Final in 2014 and 2016, finishing fifteenth both times.