Natasha Baker
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| Full name | Natasha Louise Baker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Para-dressage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 December 1989 Hammersmith, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Natasha Louise Baker OBE (born 30 December 1989) is an English para-equestrian. She won six gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the Paralympic Games.[1]
Early life
[change | change source]Natasha Baker was born on 30 December 1989 in Hammersmith, London, England.[2] When she was 14 months old, she got transverse myelitis, a rare condition. Because of that, she has nerve damage and she cannot feel her legs.[3]
Baker started to ride horses when she was a child. She wanted to go to the Paralympic Games since 10, when she watched the 2000 Summer Paralympics on TV.[2][4]
Baker cannot use her legs, so she uses her voice to tell her horses what to do.[5]
Career
[change | change source]Dressage rider
[change | change source]Baker and Cabral ("JP"), her 11-year-old male horse, went to the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, her home city. There, they won two gold medals.[1][2][4] They also went to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where they won three gold medals.[1][2][4] However, on 26 February 2017, Cabral died of bacterial infection.[6]
Baker and Keystone Dawn Chorus ("Lottie"), her new mare (female horse), went to the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and they won a gold and two silver medals.[1][2][4] They also went to the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris and they won two bronze medals.
Sports commentator
[change | change source]Baker is also a sports commentator. In 2017, she commentated with Rupert Bell on para-dressage grade III at the European Dressage Championships in Gothenburg.[7] She commentated on dressage competitions again in 2018 and in 2019.[3][8]
Personal life
[change | change source]Baker got married in June 2022. She has a child.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Natasha Baker". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 25 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Natasha Baker". British Paralympic Association. Archived from the original on 25 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Natasha Baker". Horse & Hound. Archived from the original on 18 July 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Natasha Baker". British Equestrian. Archived from the original on 19 May 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ↑ OIS (25 August 2021). "Great Britain's Natasha Baker makes all the right sounds as 'horse whisperer'". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ↑ Equnews Editorial (27 February 2017). "Rio gold medallist horse dies of bacterial infection". Equnews. Archived from the original on 26 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ↑ Howell, Robert (29 August 2017). "Natasha Baker: From competitor to commentator". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ↑ Howell, Robert (12 April 2019). "Natasha's New Direction". International Federation for Equestrian Sports. Archived from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
Other websites
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- Official website
- Natasha Baker at FEI
- Natasha Baker at FEI (alternative link)
- Natasha Baker at Paralympic.org
- Natasha Baker at the British Paralympic Association
- 1989 births
- Dressage riders
- English equestrians
- English sports commentators
- Living people
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Paralympic equestrians
- Paralympic bronze medalists
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- People from Hammersmith
- Sportspeople from London