Johanna Hall

Johanna Hall (24 May 1934 – 9 February 1996) was a British equestrian. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1]

Johanna Hall
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born(1934-05-24)24 May 1934
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died9 February 1996(1996-02-09) (aged 61)
Slough, England
Sport
SportEquestrian

In the 1950s she went on holiday to Austria and received lessons in the famous Vienna riding school. During these lessons she become closely acquainted with a young British man, Robert Hall (1924-2014).[2] She joined him in England where he ran the Fulmer School of Equitation in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. They married in 1958. They had a son in 1966 and lived in The White House in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire.[3]

Just before the Rome Olympics Hall competed in Ascot and her win impressed the GB selectors so enormously that they asked her to compete for GB in the Olympics in Rome. Her nationality papers had to be quickly sorted out.[4]

She won the GB Championship in 1962,[5] and went on to compete in Tokyo in 1964 and is the first foreigner and British rider to win the prestigious Hamburg Dressage Derby in 1965.[6]

1960Rome OlympicsIndividual dressage 13th [7]
1962National Champion
1964Tokyo OlympicsIndividual dressage 12th [8]
1965Hamburg Dressage Derby1st prize
1968Mexico OlympicsIndividual dressage 14th [9]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Johanna Hall Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. "Hall, Robert | The Horse Magazine". horsemagazine.com. Horse Magazine. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. "Fulmer School of Equitation, Buckinghamshire". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. "NEDERLANDSE AMAZONE OP OLYMPISCHE SPELEN". delpher.nl. Algemeen Handelsblad. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  5. "National Champion sGB Dressage". BritishDressage.co.uk. British Dressage. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  6. "Hamburg Derby win". forum.britishdressage.co.uk/forum. British dressage. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  7. "The Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960 : the official report of the Organizing Committee Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, v.2". digital.la84.org. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  8. "Official Report 1964 v.2 page 1". digital.la84.org. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  9. "Mexico Olympics 1968". digital.la84.org. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
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