Edwina Tops-Alexander

Edwina Tops-Alexander (born 29 March 1974) is an Australian showjumper known for her participation in three Olympics, finishing in the top ten twice.

She is the first Australian to place in the top 10 at the World Equestrian Games and the first rider to earn more than €1 million in prize money on the Global Champions Tour.

In 2002, Tops-Alexander competed at the World Equestrian Games (WEG), hosted that year in Jerez, for the first time.

She competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics, captaining the Australian showjumping team and finishing ninth individually.

[3] In 1998, wanting to ride against the top riders in the world, she moved to Europe, taking her horse, Mr. Dundee, with her to Belgium.

Brussels, Valkenswaard, London, Zürich, Cannes, Geneva, Vigo, and Doha are just few of the places where Edwina has won Grand Prix shows.

She was selected for the jumping events at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she rode Isovlas Itot du Chateau.

[6] In 2016 Edwina won the Miami Beach Grand Prix, the first Global Champions Tour round of the season.

[7] Tops-Alexander was selected for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and rode Identity Viseroel in the Jumping event.

On 28 March 2017, Tops-Alexander announced that she was putting her career on hold and leaving the sport as she prepared to give birth to her first daughter in August 2017.

Chloe Cornelia Jennifer Tops was born on 30 July 2017 in the Princess Grace Hospital Centre, Monaco.