 Johnstone at the 2024 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1987-04-26)26 April 1987 (age 38) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Equestrian | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Eventing | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Clarke Johnstone (born 26 April 1987) is a New Zealand equestrian, competing ineventing.
Johnstone was born in 1987 inDunedin[1] and grew up on a farm inOtago.[2] From 2000 to 2004, he attendedJohn McGlashan College in Dunedin.[3] In 2008, he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from theUniversity of Otago.[2] After university, he moved toMatangi nearHamilton in theWaikato, but lived in England between May 2011 and 2013 lived in England in preparation for theLondon Olympics.[4]
Johnstone took up horse riding aged 12 when his sister talked him into it.[2] At the2010 FEI World Equestrian Games inLexington, Kentucky, he won the bronze medal with the eventing team alongsideAndrew Nicholson,Mark Todd, andCaroline Powell. At the2011 CHIO Aachen in Germany, he won the silver medal in the team event alongside Nicholson, Powell, andJonathan Paget.
Johnstone missed out on selection for the2012 Summer Olympics; his main horse — Orient Express — was injured and he thus was not chosen. At the2016 Summer Olympics, he finished sixth in theindividual and fourth in theteam event.[5] Since 2014, his horse has been Balmoral Sensation.[4]
Johnstone achieved the followingCCI 4*:
| Results | ||||||||||||
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| Event | Kentucky | Badminton | Luhmühlen | Burghley | Pau | Adelaide | ||||||
| 2006 | 13th (Oakley Vision) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | did not participate | |||||||||||
| 2009 | 6th (Orient Express) EL (Oakley Vision) | |||||||||||
| 2010 | did not participate | |||||||||||
| 2011 | 17th (Incognito) | |||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | did not participate | |||||||||||
| 2015 |  (Balmoral Sensation) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 5th (Balmoral Sensation) | |||||||||||
| 2017 |  (Balmoral Sensation) | |||||||||||
| EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew | ||||||||||||
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