Cindy Ishoy

Cindy Ishoy started her riding career in Germany as a teenager after swimming competitively from the ages of 10 to 13. Only a few years later, she was a member of the Gold medal-winning dressage team and placed fourth individually at the 1971 Pan Am Games in Cali, Columbia. Her Olympic debut came the following year in Munich, when she was only 20 years old. In 1979 she was the first Canadian to win an international dressage Grand Prix, and was second at the 1988 World Cup in the Netherlands aboard her great Hanoverian partner, Dynasty. The pair were also members of Canada's bronze medal winning dressage team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where they placed fourth individually.

Since 2000, Ishoy has been paired with Proton, a 10-year-old German-bred gelding. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Ishoy and Proton were the top Canadian dressage competitors, placing 31st individually, which helped secure a team placing of ninth overall and move Canada up one place in the international rankings. After winning both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the Canadian League World Cup Finals in 2005, Ishoy again represented Canada at the World Cup Finals. She followed this with an impressive 11th place finish in the Grand Prix at the CDI3* Hagen, Germany out of a competitive field of 46 international competitors. After winning a berth to Canada's World Equestrian Games team, Ishoy and Proton traveled with the team to Europe for preparatory training and competition where they scored top ten finishes in both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDI3* Pompadour in France.

During her remarkable career, Ishoy has worked with a number of high profile coaches, including Siegfried Peilicke, Willi Schultheis, Norbert van Laak, and her husband, Neil Ishoy. With her husband, Cindy owns and operates Ishoy Enterprises, their coaching and training facility in Hannon, Ontario, and travels extensively as a competitor and clinician. 
 
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Career Highlights

1980   8th Team Finish - Alternate Olympic Games - Rotterdam, Netherlands
1985   Gold Individual & Team Silver Medals - North American Dressage Championships, Horse: Dynasty
1986   8th Team Finish - World Dressage Championships - Cedar Valley, ON
        Horse: Dynasty
1987   Canada National Dressage Champion
        4th - World Cup Dressage Finals - Sweden, Horse: Dynasty
1988   Bronze Team Medal - Olympic Games - Seoul, Korea
        2nd - World Cup Dressage Finals - s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
        Horse: Dynasty
1991   1st - Volvo World Cup Canadian League Finals - Royal Winter Fair,
        Horse: Dakar
1992   10th Team Finish - Olympic Games - Barcelona, Spain
        11th - Volvo World Cup Final, Göteborg, Sweden, Horse: Dakar
1993   1st - Grand Prix & Freestyle - Dressage at Devon CDI3* - Devon, PA
        Horse: Dakar
1998   2nd - Canadian League World Cup Finals - Royal Winter Fair
        Horse: Donevan
2002   2nd - Intermediare I - FEI Coupe des Ameriques - Blainville, PQ
        Horse: Proton - Baden Wurttemberg gelding owned by Cindy Ishoy
2003   2nd - Grand Prix & Freestyle - Dressage at Devon CDI3* - Devon, PA
        Horse: Proton - Baden Wurttemberg gelding owned by Cindy Ishoy
2004   Member of the Olympic Canadian Dressage Team - Athens, Greece —
        9th place team finish
        1st - Grand Prix Freestyle CDI3* Blainville, Blainville, QC; 2nd - Grand Prix CDI***             Blainville, Blainville, QC
        1st - Grand Prix & Freestyle CDI3* York Equestrian Centre, Cedar Valley, ON
        1st - Grand Prix & Freestyle CDI3* Batavia, Batavia, OH
        1st - Grand Prix & Special CDI3* Westchester Fairfield, Port Jervis, NY
        Horse: Proton - 10 yr. old Baden Wurttemberg gelding owned by Cindy Ishoy
2005   1st - Canadian League World Cup Finals - Royal Winter Fair
        2nd - Grand Prix & Freestyle - Dressage at Devon CDI3* - Devon, PA
        Horse: Proton - Baden Wurttemberg gelding owned by Cindy Ishoy
2006   FEI World Ranking: 88th
        Team Member - 2006 World Equestrian Games Dressage Team - Aachen, Germany
        7th - Grand Prix - Pompadour CDI3* - France; 7th - Grand Prix Freestyle - Pompadour CDI3* - France;
        11th - Grand Prix - Hagen CDI3* - Germany; 9th - Grand Prix Freestyle - Hagen             CDI3* - Germany
        Canadian Representative - World Cup Finals - Amsterdam, Netherlands
        Horse: Proton - Baden Wurttemberg gelding owned by Cindy Ishoy
 

 
Cindy Ishoy remains the highest placed Canadian ever in World Cup Final
competition, having placed second in 1988 riding her legendary Seoul Olympic Team Bronze medal partner, Dynasty.