Lottie Fry

Charlotte (Lottie) Fry is the reigning world dressage champion and one of Britain’s most successful international riders. She won double individual gold and team silver at the 2022 World Championships with Glamourdale, having already helped Britain secure team bronze at the Tokyo Olympics with Everdale.

She went on to claim team gold and individual silver at the 2023 Europeans, plus team and individual bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics, again with Glamourdale.

Lottie was born on 11 February 1996. She is the daughter of the late dressage Olympian and European silver medallist Laura Fry, who died in September 2012 from breast cancer. Lottie credits her mother as her biggest inspiration and the reason she pursued a career in dressage.

Lottie began competing internationally as a teenager, representing Britain at the 2010 pony Europeans Championships and the 2013 junior Europeans.

At 18, with guidance from Carl Hester, she moved to the Netherlands to train with Anne and Gertjan van Olst, where she has remained based ever since.

Lottie’s championship career began in earnest in 2018, when she won individual gold and team bronze with Dark Legend at the under-25 European Championships, and rode the promising stallion Glamourdale to victory in the seven-year-old class at the World Breeding Championships.

She made her senior championship debut in 2019 and soon became a mainstay of the British team. In 2021, she and Everdale helped win team bronze at the Tokyo Olympics and team silver at the European Championships. But it was with Glamourdale that she hit new heights: the pair stormed to double individual gold and team silver at the 2022 World Championships in Herning. They followed this with team gold and individual silver at the 2023 Europeans, team and individual bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and in 2025, victory at the FEI Dressage World Cup and team silver at the Europeans.

Her top rides have each played a defining role in her rise. Glamourdale has become her standout partner – a double Olympic medallist, double world champion and World Cup winner, also named KWPN Horse of the Year three times and Horse & Hound Dressage Horse of the Year in 2023. Everdale anchored her first senior team medals, while Dark Legend delivered her early international titles. Lottie’s pipeline of talent continues with horses like Kjento, the world six- and seven-year-old champion and KWPN’s 2022 Horse of the Year.

Lottie continues to train and compete for Van Olst Horses in the Netherlands, balancing championship pressure with producing the next generation of stars.