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Lucinda Jane GreenMBE (néePrior-Palmer, born 7 November 1953) is a Britishequestrian andjournalist who competed ineventing. She is the 1982World Champion and twiceEuropean Champion (1975–77). She also won World team Gold (1982), three European team golds (1977, 1985, 1987) and an Olympic silver medal in the team event in 1984. Between 1973 and 1984, she won a record six times at theBadminton Horse Trials (on six different horses). She also won theBurghley Horse Trials in 1977 and 1981. She was appointed aMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the1978 Birthday Honours for services to Horse Riding.[1]
In 2020, she launched The Lucinda Green XC Academy, an online membership forcross-country riding.[2]
Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer was born inAndover, Hampshire on 7 November 1953.[3] Her father isMajor-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer (died 1977) and her mother is Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Hope, a daughter of thesecond Marquess of Linlithgow, who served asViceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.[4] She attended the independentSt Mary's School inWantage and Idbury Manor inOxford.[5]
Green began riding at the age of four and is most well known for winning theBadminton Horse Trials a record six times, on six different horses: Be Fair (1973), Wideawake (1976), George (1977), Killaire (1979), Regal Realm (1983) and Beagle Bay (1984). In addition, she was placed second on Village Gossip (1978). She has also won the Tony Collins Trophy, awarded to the British rider with the greatest number of points in eventing in a season, a record seven times.
Green first represented Britain at the 1973European Championships at Kiev. She competed in the European Championships a total of seven times and was European Champion in 1975, on Be Fair, and again in 1977, on George.
She attended her first Olympics in 1976, at the Montreal Games. However, she had to retire after the cross-country event after her mount, Be Fair, slipped a tendon on course. In 1980, the British Equestrian Team took part in the1980 Summer Olympics boycott, and Green represented Great Britain at the alternative Olympics at Fontainebleau, where she was in 69th place after the dressage, rising to 7th after the cross-country ride, on Village Gossip.
Green's 1981 career included a win at theBurghley Horse Trials on Beagle Bay.
In 1982, she went on to represent Britain at theEventing World Championships in Luhmühlen, where she won the individual gold medal on Regal Realm, as well as being part of the gold medal-winning team. She was part of the silver medal-winning British Team at the 1983European Eventing Championships in Switzerland, where she also won an individual silver medal.
In 1984, Green attendedBadminton, and not only won for the sixth time, on Beagle Bay, but also placed fifth on Village Gossip. Later that year, at the Los Angeles Olympics, she represented the silver medal British Team and individually placed 6th. Green was team GB's flag bearer at the opening ceremony in Los Angeles, leading the British team into the arena during the parade of nations.
Green became a mother in 1985, and she retired for a few months before returning to international competition later that year and helping the British Team win the gold at the European Championships held at Burghley. She was short-listed to attend the 1986 World Championships as well, but an injury to her horse forced her to withdraw. However, in late 1986 she went on to win the event atBoekelo.
Green finished her international career after attending the 1987 European Championships in Luhmuhlen. She now is a commentator for major events, and conducts clinics worldwide. Green is a member of the Board of Directors of British Eventing, formerly the British Horse Trials Association and a team selector.
In October 2020, she launched the Lucinda Green Cross Country Academy, an online membership.[2]
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Green married Australian equestrianDavid Green in 1981 inSalisbury and they have a son Freddie (born 1985) and daughter Lissa (born 1989), who is an international event rider. The couple divorced in 1992. Her niece isLara Prior-Palmer, the first woman to win theMongol Derby.
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