{{Short description|British equestrian (born 1975)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalSport | Equestrian}} {{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2009 Windsor|Team dressage}} {{MedalBronze|2003 Hickstead|Team dressage}} {{MedalBottom}}
'''Emma Hindle''' (born 19 May 1975) is a British international equestrian. She first rode for her country in 2004, competing in the World Equestrian Games of that year, and competed for Great Britain in Dressage at both the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games.<ref name=teamGB>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6743 |title=Athlete Profile |accessdate=2008-08-09 |work= |publisher=www.olympics.org.uk |date= |archive-date=26 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226030312/http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6743 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life== Hindle was born in Preston, Lancashire on 19 May 1975, the daughter of multimillionaire property developer John Hindle. After riding a donkey on the beach at Blackpool aged four, she began taking regular riding lessons at her aunt's stables. She began competitive showing in Working hunter classes, followed by eventing.<ref name=HandH>{{cite web |url=http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/388/281763.html |title=Emma Hindle |publisher=Horse & Hound |accessdate=2011-04-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919054704/http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/388/281763.html |archivedate=2011-09-19 }}</ref>
==Career== Aged 12, Hindle was under instruction from international dressage judge Stephen Clarke and at 18 she moved to Sweden to train with Kyra Kyrklund at the Flyinge Stud.
When Kyrklund moved to the UK in 1993, Hindle moved to the base of Netherlands Olympic dressage medallist Ellen Bontje in Frankfurt, Germany. It was from this base that she competed in the Beijing Olympics.<ref name=HandH/>
Now running the Brookhouse Stud in Erbach, Hessen, Hindle is part of the London 2012 World Class Performance Programme.<ref name=HandH/>
==Results== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Games ! Age ! Sport ! Event ! Team ! Position |- | Athens Summer Olympics 2004 | | Equestrianism | Individual Dressage | Great Britain | 8 |- | Athens Summer Olympics 2004 | | Equestrianism | Mixed Dressage, Team | Great Britain | 8 |- | Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 | | Equestrianism | Individual Dressage | Great Britain | 8 |- | Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 | | Equestrianism | Individual Grand Prix Dressage | Great Britain | 8 |- | Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 | | Equestrianism | Mixed Dressage, Team | Great Britain | 8 |- |}<ref>{{cite web|url=//www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6742 |title=Emma Hindle |publisher=British Olympic Association |accessdate=2011-04-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080818182035/http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6742 |archivedate=August 18, 2008 }}</ref>
==Personal life== She has a son Luke, and following her father's death, she is running his property business.<ref name=eurodressage>{{cite news|title=Emma Hindle's Brookhouse Stud Relocated to England|url=http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/2013/04/22/emma-hindles-brookhouse-stud-relocated-england|accessdate=29 October 2015|work=eurodressage|date=22 April 2013}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6743 Team GB Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226030312/http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6743 |date=26 February 2010 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080704165848/http://www.brookhousestud.com/ Brookhouse stud]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hindle, Emma}} Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Preston, Lancashire Category:British dressage riders Category:British expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Category:British expatriates in Germany Category:Olympic equestrians for Great Britain Category:British female equestrians Category:Equestrians at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Equestrians at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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