Pan Am Games Rider Vera Protzen Dies After Riding Accident

The German born Argentinian dressage rider Vera Beatriz Protzen died unexpectedly on 2 November 2020 after a riding accident.

Vera was 45 years old.

Double Pan Am Games Rider

Protzen has competed at two Pan American Games and has been an international competitor since 2004.

She made her international show debut on the KWPN gelding Kadirmo (by Landwin II B out of Adirmie). She rode her first championship, the South American Games, in 2004. They were held at Haras el Capricho in Buanos Aires, Argentina, where she finished 12th in the Kur to Music.

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