Jessica Mendoza
Jessica Mendoza, born in 1996, enjoyed a prolific pony and junior career in showjumping before recently stepping up to senior competition.
She won a team gold medal riding the great pony Tixylix at the 2012 European Pony Showjumping Championships. Since then she has gone onto win team bronze at the 2013 junior European Championships and team gold and individual silver at the 2014 junior European Championships riding Spirit T, who she produced herself.
Jessica Mendoza represented Great Britain at the 2015 Senior European Championships in Aachen on Spirit T, where she helped the British team finish in fourth place to claim their qualification for the Rio Olympics. Jessica and Spirit T have been selected as the travelling reserves for Rio as well as being part of the British Nations Cup squad for Hickstead (29 July).
Jessica is based in The Netherlands with her parents, having previously lived in Wiltshire where she was at school.
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#SundaySchool: controlling the canter with Jessica Mendoza
The international showjumper uses a canter-on-a-circle exercise to help develop balance and control, which can be used in the ring
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#SundaySchool: Jessica Mendoza — how to practise seeing a stride with control
The international showjumper explains how to adjust a horse’s stride over related distances
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#SundaySchool: Jessica Mendoza on control in the canter
The international showjumper uses a canter-on-a-circle exercise to help develop balance and control, which can be used in the ring
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‘She was the best thing that ever happened to me — she took me, a 20-year-old girl, to the Olympics’
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'Sweet dreams, little man': Jessica Mendoza loses top horse
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British showjumping star Jessica Mendoza collects FEI award
A total of seven Brits were nominated for the prestigious awards
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British stars on the shortlist for FEI awards
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Jessica Mendoza shows off exciting new rides at HOYS
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British showjumpers claim second at Nations Cup final
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British squad for Nations Cup final revealed
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Aachen Europeans showjumping: Britain qualifies for Rio 2016 amid Irish controversy *VIDEO*
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