Hadaway honoured for London 2012 role

Tim Hadaway, FEI director of games and championships, has been awarded a medal of honour by the British Equestrian Federation (BEF).

This is in recognition of his role as competition manager for the London 2012 equestrian events.

BEF chairman Keith Taylor presented the award at Badminton on Sunday (11 May).

Tim was credited with bringing equestrian sport back to the heart of the Olympics and increasing the visibility of the sport to a global audience.

He started out in the Pony Club, before working as a cross-country course builder and designer and then moving into event management. He was director of Blair horse trials in the 1990s, and has since held technical advisory positions within British Eventing.

Martha Terry

H&H features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.