Beatriz Ferrer-Salat

Ferrer-Salat was born March 11, 1966, in Barcelona, Spain. She is the daughter of Carlos Ferrer, a tennis player who played for Spain in the Davis Cup in 1953, and in 1986 was president of the Spanish Olympic Committee during Barcelona's selection as the host city for the 1992 Summer Olympics. At age 15, she began riding, and soon began training seriously in dressage. The 1986 selection of Barcelona to host the 1992 Summer Games inspired her to become a professional in the sport. Ferrer-Salat moved to Germany in 1990 to train with several coaches. ==Competitive career==

At the 1995 European Championships, Ferrer-Salat, riding Vital Robert Worislaw, helped the Spanish team to a sixth-place finish. This qualified the Spanish dressage team for an Olympic berth for the first time in history. In 2007, Beauvalais was retired, and Ferrer-Salat began competing internationally with two new horses, Fabergé and Peter Pan. In the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics, she was on the short-list for the Spanish team, but had to withdraw after Fabergé was injured and Peter Pan was evaluated as too inexperienced to compete. In 2009, she began competing with Delgado, who quickly became her top horse. Continuing the plague of injuries, she was scheduled to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was forced to withdraw after Delgado suffered an injury to his hoof. The horse, although capable of producing high scores, was prone to injury, and also caused Ferrer-Salat to withdraw from the 2010 World Equestrian Games and the 2011 European Championships. Despite these setbacks, she is known as the "most successful dressage rider" in Spanish history. In 2013, Ferrer-Salat was announced as the chair of the board of the newly created Spanish Dressage Riders Club, a national organization for dressage in Spain. ==References==