Equestrians at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Jessica Kurten, Mark Todd, Ludger Beerbaum, Alvaro de Miranda Neto, Anne Kursinski, Robert Dover (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Jessica Kurten, Mark Todd, Ludger Beerbaum, Alvaro de Miranda Neto, Anne Kursinski, Robert Dover, Nick Skelton, Anky van Grunsven, Michael R. Matz, Karen O'Connor, Ian Millar, Eddie Macken, Isabell Werth, Rodrigo Pessoa, Andrew Hoy, Jane Gregory, Phillip Dutton, Michael Whitaker, John Whitaker, Jos Lansink, Andrew Nicholson, Blyth Tait, Ian Stark, Hugo Simon, Geoff Billington, Matthew Ryan, Vaughn Jefferis, Franke Sloothaak, Mac Cone, Monica Theodorescu, Vicky Latta, Jan Tops, Klaus Balkenhol, Peter Charles, Markus Fuchs, Lars Nieberg, Tineke Bartels, Sven Rothenberger, Ulrich Kirchhoff, Sally Clark, Martin Schaudt, Kyra Kyrklund, Gillian Rolton, Luis Alvarez de Cervera, Ralf Ehrenbrink, Wendy Schaeffer, Gonnelien Rothenberger. Excerpt: Jessica Kurten (24 November 1969) is an Irish equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping. Born Jessica Chesney, Kurten won several national pony championships as a youth. In 1994 Kurten married Eckard Kurten and moved to Hunxe in the German Rhineland. She has twice represented Ireland at the Olympic Games, 1996 Atlanta on Diamond's Exchange finishing 26th individually and team 8th and in 2004 Athens on Castle Forbes Maike finishing 18th individually. Kurten had been the highest ranked Irish rider (apart from October 2009 (Ranking no. 106), and January 2010 (Ranking no. 109), where Denis Lynch held the title) until July 2010 (Ranking no. 116) when Denis Lynch took over. She reached her highest ever World Ranking in April 2008 (No. 88) where she was the 2nd highest ranked rider in the world. As of the end of August 2011, she is ranked 60th in the Rolex World Rankings - Irelands no. 4. In 2006 Kurten was a judge on the BBC's Only Fools on Horses event. In April 2007 she won the prestigious British Open Show Jumping Championships title at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. In 2007, Kurte...