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Scott Keach
Athlete Biography
Scott Keach competed in Eventing at the Seoul 1988 Olympics and the 28 year gap between being selected for the Rio 2016 Team as a show jumper is an Australian record. He made his Games debut in the Eventing Team alongside Andrew Hoy, Barry Roycroft and David Green.
He had a big break from the sport to do other things in life and got back involved with show jumping when he moved to Florida in 2009. He loved show jumping when he was young so he got back involved and in the past four years he has had great results on the American circuit.
He helped qualify Australia the Team spot for Rio in 2015 and won a 4 star event in Florida in February 2016
Keach bought the horse Fedor in Belgium as an eight year old in 2013.
Keach was born in Tasmania, grew up in Western Australia, and lived in South Australia where he went to high school and university. He started riding on sheep and cattle farm in south west WA.
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Equestrian - Jumping
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Sport Equestrian - Jumping Status Selected Event/s Individual Open Age 51 http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/scottkeach 1/3 27/07/2016 Scott Keach | AUS Team | Rio 2016 Born Launceston, TAS, Australia Lives Ocala, Florida, United States
James Paterson-Robinson
Matthew Williams
Edwina Tops-Alexander
Career Highlights
Winning the 4 star Grand Prix in Ocala in Feb 2016 Member of the Australian Team =2nd in the Challenge Cup, Barcelona Sept 2015, Other wins and placings in US National Grand Prix.
Education
Primary Amaroo Primary School, Boyup Brook (WA, Australia) Secondary St Peter’s College, Adelaide and Christies Beach High School (SA, Australia) Tertiary Bachelor of Health Sciences, Adelaide (University South Australia)
Training
Primary Training Base Ocala, Florida, USA Secondary Training Base Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Q&A
Star Sign Taurus I would spend my last $10 on Too hard to say If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Downhill Skiing Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Kieren Perkins 1500m freestyle both in Barcelona and Atlanta, both times had everyone in the stands supporting him, I think maybe Atlanta tops it for the courage shown. First Olympic Memory? Opening Ceremony Montreal 1976 http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/scottkeach 2/3 27/07/2016 Scott Keach | AUS Team | Rio 2016 Most InȐuential person in your career/life Too many, parents a good start though
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James Paterson-Robinson
Athlete Biography
James Paterson-Robinson has earned selection on his second Olympic Team after making his debut at the London 2012 Olympics, where he placed 43rd for the Individual and 10th in the Team event.
Paterson-Robinson was born in Melbourne and did a lot of his early riding in Victoria for his club at Barwon Heads, near Geelong. He moved to The Netherlands in 2000 to further his jumping and training career and had almost instant success.
He won the World Championship in 2001 and 2003 for horses in the ve year-old division. In 2010 he broke through for the Australian Team and has been selected on every major Team since, representing Australia at two World Equestrian Games at (2010 and 2014). His best result coming in 2010 when the team placed seventh and he was 57th for the individual.
Amarillo is the horse he will take to Rio de Janeiro. He is part-owner of the 11 year-old bay gelding. Leading into Rio the pair has enjoyed good results including a fourth place nish at the Sopot (Poland) Nations Cup CSIO5*. At two of Australia’s nomination events, Sopot and Linz, they only incurred time penalties.
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Equestrian - Jumping
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Sport Equestrian - Jumping Status Selected http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/jamespatersonrobinson1 1/3 27/07/2016 James PatersonRobinson | AUS Team | Rio 2016 Event/s Individual Open, Team Open Height 170 Weight 72 Age 37 Born Melbourne, VIC, Australia Lives Swolgen, Netherlands
Scott Keach
Matthew Williams
Edwina Tops-Alexander
Career Highlights
Winning the Grand Prix in Bourg en Bresse in 2012. Winning the Grand Prix in Geesteren in 2010. Second with the Australian team in the 2014 Super League Final in Barcelona.
Education
Primary Geelong College, VIC, Australia Tertiary Marcus Oldham College - Horses Business Management, Geelong VIC Australia
Training
Primary Training Base Putten, Netherlands
Q&A
Star Sign libra I would spend my last $10 on on my girlfriend Jonneke scholten First Olympic Memory? Watching the Olympics on television as a small child. I told my mum that I was going to go to the Olympics one day. Most Inuential person in your career/life My mother Why this sport? Born into it
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Edwina Tops-Alexander
Athlete Biography
Edwina Tops-Alexander fell in love with horses at a young age when she began spending afternoons and weekends at her neighbours house where she would watch them ride before she jumped on and never looked back. She went on to be Australia's best junior as she took out the Australian young riders championship in 1995.
Coming in to the 2006 World Championships in Aachen, Germany ranked 35th in the world, she made history by becoming the ̂rst female Australian rider to make the ̂nal, where she eventually claimed 4th.
Tops-Alexander made her Olympic debut at the 2008 Beijing Games where she claimed 9th position in the individual event and 7th in the team event for a best Australian result. Her double clear at the competition in Hong Kong was a career highlight.
In 2011, she became the ̂rst rider to win one million Euros on the Global Champions Tour, which was set up in 2006 by her husband Jan Tops. She won the Global Champions Tour ̂nal in 2011 and 2012. She was the top ranked female rider in the world for over two years.
Tops-Alexander competed at her second Olympic Games in London where she placed equal 20th in the individual and equal 10th in the team jumping competitions, riding Itot du Chateau. She has continued to excel since London and competes in over 40 competitions a year. She has decided to ride Lintea Tequila at the Games and has high hopes for Rio 2016. She is a very popular athlete globally and has 200,000 fans on social media.
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Fast Facts
Sport Equestrian - Jumping Status Selected Event/s Individual Open Nickname Weenie Height 164 Weight 50 Age 42 Born Sydney, NSW, Australia Lives Monte Carlo, Monaco
Olympic Information
London 20th Individual,10th Team Beijing 9th Individual, 7th Team
Recent Performances
2nd – 2016 Cascais, Estoril CSI5* Global Champions Tour Grand Prix (Estoril, Portugal) 2nd – 2016 Cannes CSI5* Global Champions Tour Grand Prix (Cannes, France) 8th – 2016 Saint Tropez CSI5* Global Champions Tour Grand Prix (Saint Tropez, France) 2nd – 2016 Mexico City CSI5* Global Champions Tour Table A (Mexico City, Mexico) 1st – 2016 Miami CSI5* Global Champions Tour Grand Prix (Miami, Florida)
Career Highlights
Winning the Global Champions Tour ̂nal two years in a row (2011, 2012). Winning the 5 star GP in Miami (2016) Finishing 4th in the World Championships in 2006
Education
Primary Pymble Ladies College (NSW, Australia) Secondary Pymble Ladies College (NSW, Australia) Tertiary Bachelor of Physical Education - ACPE (1992-1995)
Training
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Q&A
Personal Motto Never give up Most In̂uential person in your career/life My husband and my parents. Why this sport? I love animals and I'm very competitive so it was a great way to communicate and compete at the same time. It's a very unique sport like no other. Getting into the mind of a horse is very special and requires a lot of feeling and intuition.
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Matthew Williams
Athlete Biography
Matthew Williams will compete as his third Olympic Games in Rio riding Valinksi S. He had a wonderful Olympic debut aged just 23 in 2008 where he was 20th in the Individual and 7th in the Team. Four years later in London the Team nished tenth and he did not ride as well individually.
Matthew Williams will compete as his third Olympic Games in Rio riding Valinksi S. He had a wonderful Olympic debut aged just 23 in 2008 where he was 20th in the Individual and 7th in the Team. Four years later in London the Team nished tenth and he did not ride as well individually.
He will use the great atmosphere of the Grand Prix events in the US and the hot conditions to acclimatise Valinski for Rio. Valinksi S is a 14 year-old, which he part owns, and they have only been a combination for less than a year by the time of the Olympics
Williams competed at the 2010 World Equestrian Games and helped Australia to 7th for the Team event and he was 63rd individually. He missed the 2014 World Equestrian Games after enduring an up and down period after the London Games.
Growing up in rural Victoria, Williams began riding horses when he was three. In 2003 he won the Australian Junior Jumping title and was also named the Junior Rider of the Year. The following year he was named the Young Rider of the Year for jumping and then moved to England to further his equestrian career. He also spent time in Belgium and Switzerland before moving to Florida, USA.
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Sport Equestrian - Jumping Status Selected Event/s Individual Open, Team Open Height 178 Weight 72 Age 31 Born Melbourne, VIC, Australia Lives Florida, United States
James Paterson-Robinson
Scott Keach
Edwina Tops-Alexander
Career Highlights
Reaching top 20 nal individually at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. 7th team nal in Beijing Winning $200k Grand Prix in Ocala this winter (2015/16)
Education
Secondary Marist-Sion College (VIC, Australia)
Training
Primary Training Base Wellington, USA
Q&A
Star Sign Aries First Olympic Memory? Watching Atlanta on the TV, seeing Jus De Pomme nish the whole Olympics with out a fault Most Inퟀuential person in your career/life My father and Duncan Ingles http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/matthewwilliams1 2/3 27/07/2016 Matthew Williams | AUS Team | Rio 2016 Why this sport? I grew up in a farm with both parents riding, it's all I've ever wanted
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