Jill henselwood biography
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Jill henselwood biography
Jill Henselwood on Luck, Training and a Horse Named &#;Canntinue&#;
Up until , Canadian Olympian Jill Henselwood had &#;an absence of bad luck” in her career.
Named to the national show jumping team in (less than two years after making her Grand Prix debut), she had a string of early successes and was named Rookie of the Year in In the decades since, she&#;s competed on over a dozen Nations Cup teams and represented her country at every major championship—multiple times.
Those include the World Cup Finals (, –), World Equestrian Games ( and ), Pan American Games (, , ) and Olympics ( and ).
Notable among those were the Pan Am Games with Special Ed, where she became the first woman in 24 years to win an individual equestrian jumping gold medal, and the Beijing Olympics in which her clutch clear round in second half of the team final set the stage for Canada&#;s three-member team to jump off for gold against the USA.
(Canada took silver.)
Then Henselwood&#;s fortunes turned.
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