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Clarke Johnstone

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Clarke Johnstone
Johnstone at the 2024 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1987-04-26) 26 April 1987 (age 37)
Sport
Country New Zealand
SportEquestrian
EventEventing
Medal record
Equestrian
Representing  New Zealand
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Kentucky Team Eventing
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Pratoni Team eventing

Clarke Johnstone (born 26 April 1987) is a New Zealand equestrian, competing in eventing.

Johnstone was born in 1987 in Dunedin[1] and grew up on a farm in Otago.[2] From 2000 to 2004, he attended John McGlashan College in Dunedin.[3] In 2008, he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Otago.[2] After university, he moved to Matangi near Hamilton in the Waikato, but lived in England between May 2011 and 2013 lived in England in preparation for the London Olympics.[4]

Johnstone took up horse riding aged 12 when his sister talked him into it.[2] At the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, he won the bronze medal with the eventing team alongside Andrew Nicholson, Mark Todd, and Caroline Powell. At the 2011 CHIO Aachen in Germany, he won the silver medal in the team event alongside Nicholson, Powell, and Jonathan Paget.

Johnstone missed out on selection for the 2012 Summer Olympics; his main horse — Orient Express — was injured and he thus was not chosen. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he finished sixth in the individual and fourth in the team event.[5] Since 2014, his horse has been Balmoral Sensation.[4]

CCI 4* results

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Johnstone achieved the following CCI 4*:

Results
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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) (Balmoral Sensation)
2016 5th (Balmoral Sensation)
2017 1st place, gold medalist(s) (Balmoral Sensation)
EL = Eliminated; RET = Retired; WD = Withdrew

References

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  1. ^ "Clarke Johnstone". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Clarke Johnstone". Equestrian Sports New Zealand. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  3. ^ Carruthers, Tiny; Button, Angela (29 June 2016). "JMC Old Boys are Rio bound". John McGlashan College. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b James, Emma (28 July 2016). "Waikato's Clarke Johnstone selected for Rio Olympics". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Clarke Johnstone". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
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