Scott Brash
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| Full name | Scott Brash | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Scottish | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 November 1985 Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland |
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| Country | Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Show jumping | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | GB | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | London 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest world ranking | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Scott Brash MBE (born 23 November 1985) is a Scottish showjumper. He has been riding the horse Hello Sanctos since early 2012. They competed as part of the British Team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London winning a gold medal in the team jumping event. In 2015 he became the first rider to win show jumping's Rolex Grand Slam, all three of the sport's most prestigious events in a single year, earning the sport's biggest individual prize of 1m Euros (£735,000).
Brash was born in Peebles, Scotland, and is the son of a builder. He attended Newlands Primary School and Peebles academy School as a child, and at seven years old he began riding his own pony. At the age of ten he began show jumping in The Pony Club.
Brash won the World Cup Grand Prix in Florida in March 2012 during the run up to the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the prize fund of $60,000. He placed ahead of Richard Spooner in second and Kent Farrington in third. It was the first occasion that Brash had won a Grand Prix event on Hello Sanctos. In May he was part of the British team that finished sixth at the Rome Nations Cup in May 2012. He was named as part of Great Britain's show jumping team for the 2012 Olympics along with Nick Skelton, Ben Maher and Peter Charles.
At the London 2012 Summer Olympics, Brash and Hello Sanctos won a gold medal as part of the British show jumping team. They finished fifth in the individual competition.
Brash was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to equestrianism. That year, Brash and Hello Sanctos won the team gold and individual bronze medal at the Herning European Show Jumping Championships. In November 2013, on the day of his 28th Birthday, Brash won the last event of the 2013 Global Champions Tour, the Doha Grand Prix, and secured himself the overall championship. In 2014, with Hello Sanctos, he won the Top 10 competition and the Rolex Grand Prix in Palexpo, Geneva.
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