Tokyo Top 20: Victoria Max-Theurer & Abbeglen Grand Prix Dressage
Victoria Max-Theurer made her Olympic debut at just 18 years of age! After four Olympics she is no stranger to the games! We have done the math and Victoria Max-Theurer are officially in the top 20 combinations in dressage that may be headed to the Olympics in Tokyo! We want you to know which combinations are the ones to watch so hit that subscribe button as we count down the days to Tokyo where history will be made!
Participating in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was a very special experience for me. Achieving 20th place individually was an excellent result which I also owe to Falcao. In the Olympic Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special he demonstrated that he has enormous potential – is spite of the fact that he only had one year of experience in Grand Prix at that time. At 18, I was the youngest rider in the dressage arena – the youngest participant ever in Olympic dressage. Falcao and I justified our nomination with the best result on the Austrian team which finally reached 8th place.
Victoria “Vici” Max-Theurer (born 24 October 1985 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian Olympic dressage rider.[1] Representing Austria, she has competed at four Olympic Games (in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016). Her best Olympic result is 8th place achieved in the team dressage competition in 2004, while her highest individual Olympic placement is 13th place from 2012. She has also competed at two World Equestrian Games (2006 and 2014) and at eight European Dressage Championships (2003 – 2017). She placed 5th in both special and freestyle individual competitions at the 2009 European Championships held at Windsor Castle.
She is the daughter of Elisabeth Theurer, the 1980 Olympic champion in individual dressage.