Miranda is a four-time Olympic rider and two-time Olympic medalist. and again at the
2008 Summer Olympics. In June 2009, Miranda ranked #2 in the
Monte Carlo grand prix of the
Global Champions Tour. He ranked 18th, with 32 points, leading into the GCT final in
Doha, Qatar, in November 2009. His performance in Doha ( 11–14 November 2009) was unremarkable at first, but he gained third place in the final, an event with a purse of €300,000. In November 2009, Miranda (on AD Picolien Zeldenrust) was the third-place winner of the Global Champions Tour final in
Doha. He actually had the fastest time, but his penalty placed him behind
Michel Robert (first place) and
Jos Lansink (second place). In December 2009, Miranda (riding AD Peanuts) won the
Salon du Cheval – Ceneca Trophy at the Gucci Masters in
Villepinte, just north of
Paris.
Horses With his ex-wife,
Athina Onassis de Miranda, he owns the
AD Sport Horses company, which breeds and trains horses and is based at
Haras de Ligny, the compound owned by the father-son team of
Nelson and
Rodrigo Pessoa in
Fleurus,
Belgium. In December 2009, at the Gucci Masters, Miranda confirmed that the company was moving to his and his wife's new property in the
Netherlands early in 2010.
List of horses • AD Picolien Zeldenrust (b. 1997,
Dutch Warmblood chestnut mare); • AD Chatwin (b. 1993, bay
gelding,
Holsteiner, retired after leg injury in July 2008); • AD Ornella (b. 1999, sold in December 2009 to
Hernan Crespo via
Jan Tops); • AD Norson (b. 2001,
chestnut stallion); • AD Como II (b. 1997, bay gelding, Holsteiner); • AD Peanuts (b. 1994, chestnut mare); • AD Untouchable (b. 2001, grey stallion); • AD Ashleigh Drossel Dan (b. 1998 grey gelding, Hannoverian)Australian bred. ==Personal life==