Lee Pearson CBE
After discovering Dressage whilst watching the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics on TV, Lee started riding and has gone on to win 12 Paralympic medals.
- Events:
- Grade Ib
- Home Town:
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Lives:
- Staffordshire
- Trains:
- Staffordshire
- Date Of Birth:
- 4th February 1974
- Games Attended:
- London 12, Beijing 08, Athens 04, Sydney 00
Lee took the triple (Team, Individual and Freestyle) at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games, a feat which he repeated in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008, thereby setting an Equestrian world record by being unbeaten at three consecutive Paralympic Games.
At London 2012, Lee competed at his fourth Paralympic Games, winning gold, silver and bronze in the three events that he competed in.
In 2003, he became the only disabled person to have won a title at the British Dressage National Championships competing against non-disabled riders when he took the 2003 elementary restricted finals.
Awarded an MBE in 2001 and an OBE in 2005 in recognition of his monumental Equestrian success and services to sport for the disabled, he then received a CBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours List for services to equestrianism and disabled sport.
Lee has arthrogryposis and controls horses using his hips.
Major Results
- 2012 London Paralympic Games
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Team: gold
Individual (Ib): silver
Freestyle (Ib): bronze (all with Gentleman)
- 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games
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Team: gold
Individual (Ib): gold
Freestyle (Ib): gold (all with Gentleman)
- 2004 Athens Paralympic Games
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Team: gold
Individual (I): gold
Freestyle: gold (I) (all with Blue Circle Boy)
- 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games
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Team: gold
Individual: gold (l)
Freestyle: gold (I) (all with Chip Chafe Meknef)
- 2010 World Equestrian Games, Kentucky, USA
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Team: gold
Individual (lb): gold
Freestyle: gold (Ib) (all with Gentleman)
- 2009 European Championships, Kristiansand, Norway
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Team: gold
Individual (lb): gold
Freestyle: gold (Ib) (all with Gentleman)
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