Where do we start:

Laura won the supreme pony title at HOYS in 2003 when she was just 13. She then won nine medals during her youth career, including three individual golds, in juniors in 2006 on Fernhill Sox, in juniors in 2007 on Rayef, and the young riders in 2009 again on Rayef.

Following a really bad fall in 2013, it looked like this bright spark would diminish. However, nobody reckoned on the power of Laura Collett on a mission to get back on a horse again, and come back bigger and better.

Scroll forward a few years, and Laura is now, Olympic Team GB Gold & Individual Bronze Medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Olympic Team GB Gold Medal winner at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winner of the 2023 Longines Luhmuhlen CCI5, Team GB Gold Medal winners FEI Eventing European Championship Haras du Pin 2023, winner of the 2022 Badminton Horse Trials, all on London 52, and an MBE. Guess that’s what they call bouncing back.

A winners philosophy: 

Laura has been selected for three European Eventing Championships as an individual. She was eliminated on the cross-country on her senior championship debut at Luhmühlen in 2011, but finished 13th at the 2015 championships at Blair Castle on Grand Manoeuvre.

Laura was second at Luhmühlen five-star in 2018 on Mr Bass, but she achieved her first five-star win in October 2020 when she took the title at the Pau Horse Trials, France, riding her own, Keith Scott and Karen Bartlett’s horse London 52 and therefore has the honour of winning the only five-star of 2020 because the eventing calendar that year had been decimated by COVID-19.

The horse had previously been the 2018 eight- and nine-year-old champion at Blenheim Horse Trials, as well as winning the Event Rider Masters at Chatsworth Horse Trials and the CCI4*-L at the Boekelo Horse Trials, both in 2019. But he had also fallen at the 2019 European Eventing Championships in Luhmühlen having sat third after the dressage.

In 2021, eight years after her near-fatal accident, Laura and London 52 were selected to represent Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo that had been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. She won gold in the team event with Oliver Townend and Tom McEwen.

Laura was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to equestrianism.

In 2022, Laura won the Badminton Horse Trials. Riding London 52, she led from start to finish, setting an all time Badminton record finishing score of 21.4.

In June 2024, she was confirmed as part of the Great Britain team to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics on London 52, and we all know what happened next.

Follow Laura and her Team:

Laura’s eventing team is made up of family and long standing, loyal fellow equestrians with a reputation for professionalism combined with fun.

We are immensely proud to have them as part of our STX-UK Family, and we wish them all the best for their new ventures to come.