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Sue Blinks
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qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia by winning the State Line Tack/USET Dressage Championship in Loxahatchee, FL. Blinks and Flim Flam combined for one of their best rides at the Olympic Games in Sydney to help the U.S. earn its third consecutive Olympic team Bronze Medal. Blinks was a member of the USET's Silver Medal World Championship team at the 2002 World Equestrian Games and was on the fourth place USET squad at the 1998 World Equestrian Games in Rome, Italy, where she rode Flim Flam to an individual twelfth place finish. Later that year she was named USOC Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year. In 2002, Blinks and Flim Flam finished third in the USET Grand Prix Championship at the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions. A 1997 USET Training and Competition grant recipient, Blinks earned a Team Gold Medal at the 1997 CDIO Hickstead in England and rode Flim Flam to a first place finish in the Grand Prix Special. She also finished second and third (aboard Flim Flam and Delano respectively) in the USET Grand Prix Championship. Blinks earned the high honors with second and third place finishes in the Grand Prix, Special and Freestyle at the 1997 Bayer/USET Festival of Champions. Blinks rode to numerous victories on the 1997 Florida dressage circuit. She won the Grand Prix and Special at Wellington, and the Grand Prix qualifier and Freestyle at the Winter Equestrian Festival Dressage Classic in Florida. She alsowonthe Grand Prix and Intermediaire II at the Gold Coast Opener and the Special at the Florida Dressage Classic. Blinks won the 1996 Grand Prix Special at the CDI-W New England Dressage Association aboard Flim Flam. At the Royal Dressage Festival in New York, she was victorious in the USET Grand Prix Special qualifier and the Intermediaire II. In 1989, Blinks was long-listed for the North American Championships. |
Wolfgang Solo
