Former dressage rider Arjen Teeuwissen handed away on Could 29. In 2000, Teeuwissen gained a silver medal with the Dutch workforce on the Olympic Video games in Sydney. The Royal Dutch Equestrian Sports activities Federation (KNHS) introduced the unhappy information on their web site.
Across the flip of the century, Teeuwissen was among the best dressage riders within the Netherlands. In 1999 he gained the Dutch title and gained particular person bronze on the European Championships in Arnhem that very same 12 months. Collectively along with his horse Goliath, Teeuwissen was a part of the Dutch dressage workforce that gained silver on the Olympic Video games in Sydney. In 2001 he added one other silver medal to his spectacular listing of achievements on the European Championships.
Teeuwissen cherished heat recollections of the Olympic Video games. “I believed probably the most particular factor was that we had been away from dwelling for seven weeks with one horse. The truth that we had been in a single home with all of the dressage riders on the opposite facet of the world was additionally a really particular expertise,” he stated in an interview with CHIO Rotterdam.
