Three-time Olympic dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin has been handed a one-year ban and fined 10,000 Swiss Francs (£8,886) after video footage emerged on the eve of Paris 2024 that showed her “excessively” whipping a horse.
Dujardin pulled out of the Paris Olympics just days before her event after the video of a training session from four years prior was released. She was provisionally suspended by the sport’s governing body, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI).
She later described her behaviour as “an error of judgement.”
Her international competition ban will be backdated to the start of her provisional suspension, meaning she will be eligible to compete again from July 2025.
Dujardin is one of Team GB’s most decorated Olympians, tied with retired cyclist Laura Kenny on six medals.
She won gold at London 2012 in team and individual dressage and won another individual gold at Rio 2016. She also took bronze in team and individual at Tokyo 2020 and a silver in the team event in Rio.
Information from the Associated Press contributed to this report.
