Ros Canter
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{{MedalGold | 2024 Paris | Team eventing }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 2018 Tryon | Individual eventing }}
{{MedalGold | 2018 Tryon | Team eventing }}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Haras du Pin|Individual eventing}}
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{{MedalGold|2021 Avenches|Team eventing}}
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Rosalind Canter (born 13 January 1986) is a British equestrian who competes in eventing. She is the 2018 World Champion. On Monday, 8 May 2023 and Sunday, 11 May 2025 she won the Badminton Horse Trials riding Lordships Graffalo both times. She won a gold medal in Team eventing at 2024 Paris Olympics.
Early life
Canter grew up on the family farm in Hallington, Lincolnshire.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
She attended Kidgate Junior School in Louth,Louth Standard Friday 24 December 1993, page 2 and was also a competitive swimmer in the mid-1990s, with her sister Megan.Louth Standard Friday 28 July 1995, page 14 She also competed in cross country running, when at the grammar school in Louth, alongside her sister Harriet. And with Harriet, and her other sister Megan, she played hockey for Louth Ladies and Louth Juniors.Louth Standard Friday 19 February 1999, page 22 Both Megan and Harriet also competed in equestrian events, in the 1990s.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
She has a degree in sports science from Sheffield Hallam University.{{cite web|url=http://www.roscantereventing.com/about-ros/ |work=Ros Canter Eventing |title=Biography |accessdate=21 September 2018}}
Career
Canter's CCI **** results include wins at both Badminton Horse Trials in 2023 and 2025 and Burghley horse Trials in 2024 on Lordships Graffalo, and at Stars of Pau in 2023 on Izilot DHI. At the Tokyo and Paris Olympics (2020 and 2024 respectively) she won team gold with Lordships Graffalo. She won team gold and finished fifth individually at the 2017 European Eventing Championships on Allstar B, before finishing seventh at the 2017 Stars of Pau on Zenshera. In May 2018, she finished third at the Badminton Horse Trials on Allstar B.
Canter won two golds at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, riding Allstar B.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/equestrian/45554249 |work=BBC Sport |title=World Equestrian Games: Great Britain take team eventing gold as Ros Canter wins individual title |date=17 September 2018 |accessdate=21 September 2018}} She is the fifth British rider to become World Champion in Eventing, after Mary Gordon-Watson (1970), Lucinda Green (1982), Virginia Leng (1986), and Zara Phillips (2006).
In 2022 she competed with Lordships Graffalo in the World Eventing Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro as a member of the British Team,{{cite web |title=Eventing World Championships Participants |url=https://www.fei.org/events/fei-world-championships-pratoni-2022/athletes |website=FEI.org |date=11 July 2022 |publisher=FEI |access-date=26 September 2022}} where they finished 4th individually and as a team.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, held in Paris, Canter won a gold medal in Team Eventing, alongside Laura Collett and Tom McEwen.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-29 |title=Paris 2024 Olympics equestrian: All results as Team GB win first gold in team eventing final |url=https://www.olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-equestrian-first-gold-team-gb-equestrian-team-jumping |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Olympics}}
CCI5* Results
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | |
| colspan=13 align=center | Results | |
|---|---|
| Event
! Kentucky ! Burghley ! Pau ! Adelaide ! Bicton | |
| 2015
| | | |37th (Allstar B) | | | |
| 2016
| |WD (Allstar B) | |25th (Allstar B) | | | |
| 2017
| |5th (Allstar B) |9th (Zenshera) | |7th (Zenshera) | | |
| 2018
| |{{Bronze03}} (Allstar B) |{{Bronze03}} (Zenshera) | |5th (Zenshera) | | |
| 2019
| | | | |5th (Zenshera) | | |
| 2020
|Cancelled due to Covid-19 |Cancelled due to Covid-19 |Cancelled due to Covid-19 |Cancelled due to Covid-19 | |Cancelled due to Covid-19 | |
| 2021
| |Cancelled due to Covid-19 | |Cancelled due to Covid-19 (replaced by Chedington Bicton Five Star) | |Cancelled due to Covid-19 |4th (Pencos Crown Jewel) | |
| 2022
| |{{Silver02}} (Lordships Graffalo) 12th (Allstar B) | | | | | |
| 2023
| | {{Gold01}} (Lordships Graffalo) 9th (Pencos Crown Jewel)
| | EL (Pencos Crown Jewel) |{{Gold01}} (Izilot DHI) 24th (Pencos Crown Jewel) | |
| 2024
| |RET (Izilot DHI) | | {{Gold01}} (Lordships Graffalo) RET (Izilot DHI)
| | |
| colspan=13 align=center | EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew |
International Championship Results
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | ||
| colspan="11" align="center" | Results | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year
! Event ! Horse ! Placing !Notes | ||
| 2011 | World Young Horse Championships | Aprobanta
|{{Silver02}} |CCI* |
| 2016 | World Young Horse Championships
|Pencos Crown Jewel |30th |CCI** | |
| rowspan="2" | 2017 | rowspan="2" | European Championships | rowspan="2" |Allstar B
|{{Gold01}} |Team |
| 5th
|Individual | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2018 | rowspan="2" |World Equestrian Games
| rowspan="2" | Allstar B | {{Gold01}}
|Team |
| {{Gold01}}
|Individual | ||
| 2020
|World Young Horse Championships |Izilot DHI |EL |CCI*** | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2021 | rowspan="2" |European Championships
| rowspan="2" | Allstar B | {{Gold01}}
|Team |
| 45th
|Individual | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2022 | rowspan="2" |World Championships
| rowspan="2" | Lordships Graffalo | 4th
|Team |
| 4th
|Individual | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2023 | rowspan="2" |European Championships
| rowspan="2" | Lordships Graffalo | {{Gold01}} | Team | |
| {{Gold01}}
| Individual | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2024 | rowspan="2" |Olympics
| rowspan="2" | Lordships Graffalo | {{Gold01}} | Team | |
| 21st
| Individual | ||
| colspan="11" align="center" | EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew |
Notable Horses
- Zenshera
- 2018 Luhmuhlen 5* third place
- Allstar B
- 2017 European Championships - team gold, individual 5th
- 2018 Badminton Horse Trials third place
- 2018 World Equestrian Games - team & individual gold
- 2021 European Championships - team gold
- Lordships Graffalo
- 2022 Badminton Horse Trials runner up
- 2023 Badminton Horse Trials winner
- 2023 European Championships - team & individual gold
- 2024 Olympics - team gold
- 2024 Burghley Horse Trials winner
- 2025 Badminton Horse Trials winner
- Izilot DHI
- 2023 Pau 5* winner
References
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{{Olympic champions – Equestrian team eventing}}
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Category:Alumni of Sheffield Hallam University
Category:Equestrians at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
Category:People from East Lindsey District
Category:Olympic medalists in equestrian
Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic equestrians for Great Britain