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‘We make a lot of sacrifices’: Lottie Fry on what it takes to achieve such success before turning 30, plus what’s next

In this exclusive, subscriber-only interview, double bronze Paris Olympic medallist Lottie Fry shares how she’s got to where she is and what she hopes to achieve in 2025 with her ones to watch

  • Lottie Fry has already won – take a deep breath – individual gold in the 2018 Under-25 European Dressage Championship, individual gold at the World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses in 2018 (with a then seven-year-old Glamourdale) and 2021, team silver at the 2021 Europeans, as well as team gold and individual silver at the 2023 Europeans, team silver plus individual gold in both the special and freestyle (with a personal best of 90.995% on Glamourdale) at the 2022 World Championship, plus team bronze at the Tokyo Olympics (with Everdale), and team and individual bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Glamourdale. She is yet to celebrate her 30th birthday.

    London International freestyle dressage results

    Lottie Fry and Everdale impress at London International Horse Show in 2023. Credit: Peter Nixon

    All this, and yet, when asked how the Olympic medals in particular have changed her life, she replies with a surprised laugh, “I’ve never really thought about it!”. She wears her spectacular success very lightly.

    With a bit of gentle prodding, she admits that it’s important to realise the achievement, and behind that, the work that goes in to make it all look so easy. Effortless rarely is. The debrief after any competition “goes on for a long time and is still going on now”, she says, “it’s a constant conversation, how we can improve, what can we do better in future”.

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