CINDY ISHOY BIO

Cindy Ishoy began her riding career in Germany as a teenager after swimming competitively from the ages of 10 to 13. Only a few years later, she was a member of the gold medal winning team and placed fourth individually at the 1971 Pan Am Games in Cali, Columbia. Her Olympic debut was the following year in Munich, when she was only 20 years old. In 1979 she was the first Canadian to win an international dressage Grand Prix, and was second at the 1988 World Cup in the Netherlands aboard her great Hanoverian partner, Dynasty. The pair were also members of Canada's bronze medal winning dressage team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where they placed fourth individually.

Since 2000, Ishoy has been paired with Proton, a 10 year old German bred gelding. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Ishoy and Proton were the top Canadian Dressage competitors, placing 31st individually, which helped secure a team placing of ninth overall and move Canada up one place in the international rankings. After winning both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the Canadian League World Cup Finals in 2005, Ishoy again represented Canada at the World Cup Finals. She followed this with an impressive 11th place finish in the Grand Prix at the CDI3* Hagen, Germany out of a competitive field of 46 international competitors. After winning a berth to Canada's World Equestrian Games team, Ishoy and Proton traveled with the team to Europe for preparatory training and competition where they scored top ten finishes in both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDI3* Pompadour in France.

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