Hello Veronika!


Who are you? Present yourself in a few words 

I am a 20 years old girl from Prague who loves art and her horse. I wanted to ride horses since I was little.

Where are you from? 

Prague, Czech republic


What sport do you do? 

Horse riding (eventing, show jumping, dressage)


Why are you doing some sport? 

To move, to be outside because I like to do it - it's fulfilling, it's relaxing and adrenalin at the same time

What do you like about it ? 

The hard work will always pay of, the horse will return everything you give him

What you don’t like ? 

It consumes too much time, it takes all your energy, its pricey

From when you doing this sport ? (tell us about your sport journey)


I tried all kinds of sports from tennis to gymnastics but it wasn't fulfilling at all. I wanted to ride, but my mom wouldn't let me because she was too worried for me, but I haven't stop telling her I want to ride horses and in the end, she took me for my first ride when i was 10. Since then I was riding almost every day. The coaches at the stable where I was riding were really strict and the horses were crazy hard to ride sometimes and I wanted to stop riding so many times, but everyone was telling me that I will not keep doing it, and I wanted to prove them wrong more than anything so I continued and then my coaches were telling me that I don't have the “heart for the sport”, the heart to be the best, so again I did all in my power to prove them wrong. I started doing it kind of professionally and I showed them what I can do, but now when I look at it backwards I can see that it wasn't the best motivation, it was the best one to make me do it professionally, but not the best one for me and the horse's well being. Now I understand that I should do only what I and my horse actually want and I spend all the time with him just to build our relationship and have a good time together. Sport shouldn't be only about the competition. You should actually love to do it otherwise it makes no sense. And I loved it, but for the wrong reasons.



What are your goals in this sport ? Do you always had that goals ? 

My goals in this sport is to be happy with doing it, without chasing medals and wins, I just want to have good relationship with my horse and listen to what he has to say, because before I was ignoring his feelings a lot and he wasn't even happy about competing anymore.


What is your discipline ? Because people usually know more races only

My main discipline is eventing. Its a horse riding discipline consisting of 3 parts → 2 other  horse disciplines - dressage and showjumping and the third part cross-country which is the most dangerous but also the most interesting at the same time. This discipline is not about speed but about how precise you are with your riding style and time.


What is particular in your discipline?

The whole discipline is really particular also since it is made of more than one discipline and also till all of the three disciplines are done you don't\ know how the results are going to be, so its really intense till the last minute.