Georgia Bruce

Georgia Bruce
Personal information
Full name Georgia Bruce
Nationality  Australia
Born 7 May 1981
Cairns, Queensland
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Medal record
Equestrian
Paralympic Games
2008 Beijing Mixed Dressage – Championship grade IV
2008 Beijing Mixed Dressage – Freestyle grade IV

Georgia Bruce (born 7 May 1981)[1] is an expert in equine behavior and psychology. She specializes in the positive reinforcement based training method known as "Clicker Training". Bruce has written two books about clicker training horses and has also produced a DVD training series on equine clicker training. Bruce gives lessons, clinics, trick shows and clicker training demonstrations around Australia. Her broad repertoire of horse training skills includes training trick horses, liberty horses, wild horses, starting young horses and retraining problem horses. Bruce also has extensive experience training horses for high level performance in both dressage and reining.

Bruce has represented Australia on 12 occasions in the equestrian sport of dressage. She competed at the 2004 Athens Games.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Mixed Dressage – Championship grade IV event and a bronze medal in the Mixed Dressage – Freestyle grade IV event.[2] She has no radial bone or thumb on her right hand.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Media guide : Beijing 2008 (PDF). Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2008.
  2. ↑ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 October 2011.


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