Yasmin Ingham: nine things you need to know about the world champion

Yasmin Ingham and Banzai Du Loir at the World Eventing Championships 2022 — Yasmin Ingham and Banzai Du Loir at the Slide fence, on the way to individual gold at the eventing World Championships in 20222.

(Image credit: Peter Nixon)

How much do you know about Yasmin Ingham, Britain’s new world eventing champion? Check out these nine fun facts…

1. Yasmin was the pony European champion in 2013 on Craig Mor Tom. In a parallel with her 2022 eventing World Championships victory, that medal was also won in Italy, at Arezzo.

9. She represented the Isle of Man branch of the Pony Club at the Pony Club Championships in 2011, finishing second in her section and winning the cross-country horsemanship bursary. Her prize was a week’s training with Jane Holderness-Roddam. During her visit, Jane – an Olympic team gold medallist in 1968 in Mexico – showed Yasmin her scrapbooks of her Olympic achievements, which inspired her dream of competing at the top level.

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Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.

Nine things you need to know about new eventing world champion Yasmin Ingham

2. She is the first rider competing as an individual, rather than as a team rider, to take the World Championship title.

“It’s an amazing place to grow up – so tiny, but so friendly,” she says.

4. She has won the British eventing championships at all four “under” levels – 16, 18, 21 and 25.

5. She had two run-outs across country at her first pony Europeans, in 2012 and that motivated her to train all winter, with a vision of standing on a podium with a gold medal round her neck.

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