DUFOUR Cathrine

Date of Birth: 2 Jan 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: HVALSO

Birth Country:

Denmark

Place of residence : ROSKILDE

Residence Country:

Denmark

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Equestrian	Dressage Team DEN Denmark	4
	Dressage Individual	4

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Equestrian Park	Dressage Team Grand Prix Special	Finished
	Equestrian Park	Dressage Individual Grand Prix Freestyle	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Dressage Individual	Dressage Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	13	6

European Championships

Year	Location	GP Special	GP Freestyle	Dressage Team
2019	Rotterdam, NED	3	4	5
2017	Gothenburg, SWE	3	3	2

World Cup Western European League

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Grand Prix Freestyle	2020/2021	Aarhus, DEN
1	Grand Prix Freestyle	2019/2020	Gothenburg, SWE
1	Grand Prix Freestyle	2019/2020	Herning, DEN
1	Grand Prix Freestyle	2017/2018	Gothenburg, SWE
1	Grand Prix Freestyle	2017/2018	Herning, DEN
12	Grand Prix Freestyle	2018/2019	Stuttgart, GER

Legend
GP - Grand Prix, NS - Not Started, RT - Retired, WD - Withdrawn, EL - Eliminated

Occupation:

Athlete, Coach, Horse Trainer

Leisure Management, Sports Management - University College Absalon - Roskilde, Denmark

Partner Rasmine Laudrup

Languages spoken:

Danish, English

Dufour Dressage [DEN] / Helgstrand Dressage [DEN]

Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein [national], DEN; Kyra Kyrklund [personal], FIN

Sporting relatives:

Her partner Rasmine Laudrup has competed in jumping at amateur level. Rasmine is the daughter of Danish football player Brian Laudrup. (eurodressage.com, 09 Jun 2020)

She began riding at age five and got her first pony a year later. She first joined the Danish dressage team at age 12. (helgstranddressage.com, 22 Oct 2018; thehorseridersjournal.com, 17 Jun 2016)

One of her friends invited her to try the sport at a riding school. "I said, 'No, I don't want to do it' but we were good friends so I joined her and within two minutes I was totally hooked on that horsey thing. In the beginning I was not that into riding, I just wanted to brush the horse, feed it. Quite soon after that I went to a riding school and learned how to do stuff. I was really hooked on it quite fast." (dressage-news.com, 09 Nov 2017)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (dressagetoday.com, 21 Oct 2019)

German dressage rider Isabell Werth. (horseandhound.co.uk, 24 Mar 2018)

Her father. (Trolle Company A/S YouTube channel, 20 Oct 2018)

"I am quite obsessive before and during the big shows. If my steps match so I can kick a stone with my right leg, it's a really good thing. But if a pea drops from my fork, that's really bad. The list is almost endless. However, the craziness has its purpose. When out of my comfort zone, it makes me feel safe because it's something I'm familiar with, and it usually prevents me from getting nervous." (thehorseridersjournal.com, 17 Jun 2016)

Philosophy:

"My parents have always been very open minded and said, 'Let's see if we can do this. No one knows if we'll succeed, but we want to help you make it happen somehow.' That's the attitude I have with everything." (Trolle Company A/S YouTube channel, 20 Oct 2018)

She was presented with the Olympic Hope Award at the 2016 Danish Broadcasting Corporation [DR] Sports Gala. The honour is given to young Danish athletes with the potential to succeed at future editions of the Olympic Games. (dr.dk, 07 Jan 2017)

She received the Classic Style Award at the 2010 European Junior Championships in Kronberg, Germany. (thehorseridersjournal.com, 17 Jun 2016)

General Interest

General
STABLES
She runs Dufour Dressage in Roskilde, Denmark. In April 2021 she announced that she would be moving her stables to a new facility Fredensborg, Denmark alongside her partner Rasmine Laudrup. "[When I started] I wanted to be inspired by and to learn from the best riders in the world, but no one wanted to talk to me and tell me how they became so good. So, I wanted to open a door for others and say, 'Come in and hear how I did it.'" (horses.nl, 14 Apr 2021; dufourdressage.com, 23 Dec 2019; Trolle Company A/S YouTube channel, 20 Oct 2018; horseandhound.co.uk, 24 Mar 2018)

RIO BLUES
She found the build-up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro stressful, particularly as she had only recently moved from the Danish junior teams into the senior squad. She had also never competed outside of Europe before, and had little experience at major tour events. "When my parents invited friends back home I really didn't want them to come because I didn't want to talk about the Olympics. I think we talked about the Olympics every day for maybe a year. I was totally fed up with it. I was like, 'No, I don't want to talk about it', so I was quite isolated. When I got back home after the Olympics I hit a black hole. I didn't want to ride. I had some good younger horses in the stable and I sold them immediately to get them away from me. I really needed a break. It was really a tough year." (dressage-news.com, 09 Nov 2017)

HORSE'S PECULIARITY
Her horse Cassidy gets spooked if he can see himself or another horse on a television screen, which means she has had to pass on competing at some World Cup events. "We were second-last at our senior international grand prix debut and after that I took the TV from my apartment and put it in his stable. He was so frightened but he's getting better now. It's why I haven't really done the World Cup [circuit] - I have to text organisers to ask if there's going to be a livestream in the arena." (horseandhound.co.uk, 24 Mar 2018)

MISSED GAMES
She had to withdraw from the 2018 World Equestrian Games [WEG] in Tryon, NC, United States of America, after her horse Atterupgaards Cassidy sustained an injury. (globalequestriannews.com, 23 Aug 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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