Three-time Olympic dressage gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin has been banned for one year and fined 10,000 Swiss Francs (£8,886) for “excessively” whipping a horse.
Video footage emerged in July of Dujardin repeatedly striking the horse with a long whip around its legs, just days before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Dujardin’s international ban, handed out by the FEI – the world governing body of equestrian sports – is backdated to the start of her provisional suspension and she will be eligible to compete again from July 2025.
British Equestrian and British Dressage have also reciprocated the a suspension, preventing Dujardin from competing in national competition or training events during the same period.
Dujardin was provisionally suspended on 23 July for “engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare”, one day after the FEI received a video showing Dujardin excessively whipping a horse during a training session at a private stable.
The FEI said the footage of the training session did not constitute any other rule violations and added that there have not been any further complaints raised against Dujardin’s conduct since the video emerged.