Sophie Christiansen, born Sophie Margaret Christiansen on 14 November 1987, is an English former equestrian who competed at four successive Paralympic Games. In 2012 and 2016 she gained three gold medals at the Paralympics, and in 2008 she won two gold medals and a silver at the Beijing Paralympics while studying for a master's degree in mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She works as a software developer at the investment bank Goldman Sachs and as a disability campaigner, and she qualified for the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics but had to drop out because her horse was not fit.
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Competing in her second Games, she again contested the freestyle and individual championship dressage events at grade 1 and was part of the British quartet in the team dressage.
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Sophie Margaret Christiansen (born 14 November 1987) is an English former equestrian who competed in four successive Paralympic Games.
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In 2012 and 2016 she gained three gold medals at the Paralympics. In 2008 she won two gold medals and a silver at the Beijing Paralympics
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Competing in her second Games, she again contested the freestyle and individual championship dressage events at grade 1 and was part of the British quartet in the team dressage.
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