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Amanda Knowles Takes Top Honours in Jump Canada Medal Championship

November 25, 2005

Amanda Knowles Takes Top Honours in Jump Canada Medal Championship. Photo Credit – Cealy Tetley

Ottawa, ON --- Amanda Knowles of Toronto, ON, took top honours in the Jump Canada Medal Championship held Tuesday, November 8, at the Royal Horse Show in Toronto, ON.

Following both regional and provincial Jump Canada Medal Finals, the top 20 finishers from across Canada were invited to attend the Championship. Among this field of 20 talented riders, Knowles, a Grade 10 Honours student at Toronto’s Interact High School, won the class by showcasing her skilful riding abilities aboard her 11-year-old Belgian-bred gelding, Robin van het Lindehof. Knowles captured the Jump Canada Medal Championship just one week after her fifteenth birthday.

The Jump Canada Hunter Medal is held at Equine Canada (EC) sanctioned competitions across Canada, and contains two phases. The first phase is a hunter seat over fences, requiring riders to complete a course of at least eight fences set at a height of 1.09m (3’6”). All contestants, or a minimum of eight, are called back to complete a flatwork phase performed at the walk, trot and canter. A maximum of four riders are then asked to execute at least two tests from a list of 16. The tests can include extended trot, turn on the haunches, counter canter and change of lead with flying changes. The Jump Canada Medal is judged 60 percent over fences and 40 percent on the flat.

A student of Mark Hayes, Knowles also won both the flat and the jumping phases of the 2005 Running Fox CET Medal Finals, also held at the Royal Horse Show, a feat not accomplished since 1988, before placing third overall in the final ride-off. In addition to her success in the Medal classes, Knowles has enjoyed impressive results in the show jumping ring, representing Canada at the 2003 and 2004 FEI Children’s Final as well as being the youngest member of the Silver Medal Team at the 2005 North American Young Riders’ Championship held in Lexington, VA. In December of 2004, she became the youngest rider to be named the ProChaps ‘Athlete of the Month’.

Jump Canada is the national body responsible for all hunter, hunter/equitation and show jumping activities in Canada from the grass roots level to the international arena. Governed by a Board of Directors elected by the sport's stakeholders, Jump Canada is an autonomous committee of the national equestrian federation, Equine Canada. For more information regarding Jump Canada programs and activities, please visit www.jumpcanada.ca.

Jump Canada Medal Championships

Placing/ Rider/ Hometown 
1 / Amanda Knowles / Toronto, ON
2 / Sarah Johnstone /  Aurora, ON
3 / Natalie Bova /  Ashton, ON
4 / Katelyn Lesway / Kemptville, ON
5 / Lauren Patava / Toronto, ON
6 /  Jamie Richardson / Caledonia, ON
7 /  Katrina Chase / Oakville, ON
8 /  Alysia Lynch / Stouffville, ON

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