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Laura Kraut on her Olympic hopes, injuries and supporting her partner Nick Skelton in Rio *H&H Plus*

Martha Terry Martha Terry

    • With one team gold medal already in the bag, US showjumper Laura Kraut is focused on Tokyo to add to her tally, despite the unconventional build-up to the Games. Nancy Jaffer meets her

    IN the midst of a crazy, virus-plagued year, Laura Kraut is working toward making the US showjumping team for her fifth Olympics.

    “It’s the strangest thing. We’re used to being such planners and organisers and now we can’t plan anything,” says Laura, referring to Covid-19 and EHV-1.

    The 55-year-old rider’s situation was complicated by a fall in February, when she broke her collarbone.

    This interview can also be read in this week’s Horse & Hound magazine, on sale Thursday 29 April

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    Martha Terry
    Martha Terry

    H&H features editor
    Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.
    Martha Terry