Georgina Bloomberg
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Georgina Bloomberg rides Caleno 3 at the Longines Athina Onassis Horse Show in St. Tropez, France, June 2016.
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| Full name | Georgina Leigh Bloomberg | ||||||||||||
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 United States
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January 20, 1983 Manhattan, New York City |
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Georgina Leigh Bloomberg (born January 20, 1983) is the younger daughter of Susan Brown and former New York City mayor, founder of Bloomberg LP and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. She is a philanthropist and professional equestrian.
Bloomberg was born in New York City. Her sister, Emma, is four years older. She attended The Spence School and graduated from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2010. She studied at Parsons Fashion Design College in 2012.
Bloomberg began riding horses when she was four years old and began competing at six years old. She won "Best Child Rider awards at every major horse show on the east coast."
In 2000, Bloomberg began doing jumpers and won the USET Talent Derby in 2001. Bloomberg was a member of the gold medal winning North American Young Rider championship team for zone 2 in 2002 and ultimately won the individual gold medal in 2003. She was the winner of the Maxine Beard Award in 2004.
In 2005, Bloomberg was the winner of the Metropolitan Cup and the Las Vegas Invitational Knockout competition. She competed in the World Cup Finals. She was also a member of the first W.S. winning Samsung Super League team in La Baule, France. Since 2005, she has won five WEF Challenge Cups.
Bloomberg won another WEF Challenge Cup and was a member of the winning USA teams in Hamina, Finland and Falsterbo, Sweden in 2007. In Sweden she contributed her first double clear nations cup performance at a 5* competition. Bloomberg placed fourth in the Queen's Cup at Hickstead and was the highest placed American in the Dublin Grand Prix that summer. In 2008, she was a member of the last Samsung Super League Final in Barcelona.
She was the winner of the Empire State Grand Prix and the Bluegrass Festival Grand Prix in 2010. Bloomberg anchored the U.S. team victory at Furusiyya Nations Cup in Gijon, Spain with a double clear performance in August 2014. She was the winner of the inaugural Central Park Grand Prix CSI 3 in 2014.
In 2015, Bloomberg won the Adequan Grand Prix CSI 3* at the 2015 Winter Equestrian Festival. She was the Team Bronze medal winner as the newest member of the U.S. Equestrian Team in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.
Bloomberg was the winner of the Royalton Farms Open Jumper 1.4m class at the 2016 Hampton Classic Horse Show. She was also the winner of the American Gold Cup Qualifier and the Hermes Sellier Classic at the American Gold Cup in 2016.
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